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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
  • Vol. 14,
  • Issue 3,
  • pp. 228-234
  • (2010)

Joint-characteristic Function of the First- and Second-order Polarization-mode-dispersion Vectors in Linearly Birefringent Optical Fibers

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Abstract

This paper presents the joint characteristic function of the first- and second-order polarization-modedispersion (PMD) vectors in installed optical fibers that are almost linearly birefringent. The joint characteristic function is a Fourier transform of the joint probability density function of these PMD vectors. We regard the random fiber birefringence components as white Gaussian processes and use a Fokker-Planck method. In the limit of a large transmission distance, our joint characteristic function agrees with the previous joint characteristic function obtained for highly birefringent fibers. However, their differences can be noticeable for practical transmission distances.

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