Sensitivity penalty distribution in fibers with PMD: a novel semi-analytical technique

We proposed a novel semi-analytical technique for the evaluation of system outage probabilities in the presence of polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) at all-orders. Such technique relies on the rotational model for the fiber Muller matrix, whose rotational parameters were statistically characterized. Simulations of propagation can be performed either on a few hundred selected fibers or on a set of synthesized rotational models, to obtain reliable outage probability (OP) vs. average differential group delay (DGD) curves, with significant gain in simulation time.