Abstract
We compare the applicability of different methods for the calculation of first
order polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) outage probabilities under the Maxwellian
probability density assumption for the differential group delay. Results based on
measured outage maps are contrasted with outage predictions using various
simplifying approximations. We present a comprehensive data set of measured PMD
outage maps at 10.7Gb/s using non return-to-zero and return-to-zero on-off keying in
combination with both standard threshold detection and maximum likelihood sequence
estimation, with and without residual chromatic dispersion.
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