Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Compensation Strategies of Extreme Outages caused by Polarization Mode Dispersion and Amplifier Noise

摘要

Effect of birefringent disorder on the Bit Error Rate (BER) in an opticalfiber telecommunication system subject to amplifier noise may lead to extremeoutages, related to anomalously large values of BER. We analyze the ProbabilityDistribution Function (PDF) of BER for various strategies of Polarization ModeDispersion (PMD) compensation. A compensation method is proposed that iscapable of more efficient extreme outages suppression, which leads tosubstantial improvement of the fiber system performance.