Importance sampling for polarization-mode dispersion
Biondini, G.; Kath, W.L.; Menyuk, C.R.
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Volume 14, Issue 3, Mar 2002 Page(s):310 - 312
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/68.986796
Summary:We describe the application of importance sampling to Monte-Carlo simulations of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. The method allows rare differential group delay (DGD) events to be simulated much more efficiently than with standard Monte-Carlo methods and, thus, it can be used to assess PMD-induced system outage probabilities at realistic bit-error rates. We demonstrate the technique by accurately calculating the tails of the DGD probability distribution with a relatively small number of Monte-Carlo trials

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