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PMD emulation

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As PMD has become an increasingly significant issue in high-bit-rate fiber optic systems, a need has developed for laboratory instruments and software tools capable of rapidly exploring the effects of PMD on various test items. The random nature of PMD dictates that to characterize its effects on transmitter/receiver pairs and on PMD compensation systems, one must repeatedly measure the system performance over a wide sample space of PMD states. This need has spurred the development of several methods for accurately and rapidly emulating the random variations of PMD in real fibers, as well as techniques for generating specific components and combinations of first- and higher-order PMD in a predictable and repeatable way. This chapter reviews several of these methods for both statistical and deterministic PMD emulation. The underlying concepts and rationales for various design architectures are discussed. A common analytical model for describing multisection all-order emulators is presented and a simple design example is used to further illustrate the concepts.

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    A.E. Willner

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Willner, A., Hauer, M. PMD emulation. J Optic Comm Rep 1, 181–200 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10297-004-0017-x

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