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Modelling of polarisation mode dispersion in singlemode fibres

Modelling of polarisation mode dispersion in singlemode fibres

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Polarisation mode dispersion is commonly simulated by using a birefringent waveplate model. In contrast to several publications which assume a Maxwell probability density function, we found that the differential group delay is, to a good approximation, Rayleigh distributed.

Inspec keywords: Monte Carlo methods; optical fibre dispersion; delays; birefringence; optical fibre polarisation

Other keywords: singlemode fibres; polarisation mode dispersion; differential group delay; Rayleigh distributed function; birefringent waveplate model

Subjects: Optical propagation, dispersion and attenuation in fibres; Fibre optics; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Monte Carlo methods; Other fibre optical properties

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