Comparison among first order PMD compensation techniques

A comparision among three different first order polarization mode dispersion compensation techniques was done in terms of outage probability. This probability was calculated for a fixed value of sensitivity penalty at the reciever with the purpose of evaluating their impact on 10 Gbit/s communication system performance for different conditions of polarization mode dispersion and for varying compensation parameters. A numerical approach was applied looking for the best operating point of compensation © 2001 SPIE · 0277-786X/01/$15.00.