FIBRE OPTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DESIGN GUIDES - PART 3: CALCULATION OF LINK POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION
International Electrotechnical Committee
FOREWORD<br>INTRODUCTION<br>1 Scope<br>2 Basic design models for total system PMD performance<br> 2.1 Notation<br> 2.2 Calculation of system PMD<br>3 Calculation of cabled fibre PMD<br> 3.1 General<br> 3.2 Method 1: Calculating PMD[Q], the PMD link design <br> value<br> 3.3 Method 2: Calculating the probability of <br> exceeding DGD[max]<br> 3.4 Equivalence of methods<br>4 Calculation of optical component PMD<br>5 Summary of acronyms and symbols<br>Annex A (informative) PMD concatenation fundamentals<br>Annex B (informative) Combining Maxwell extrema from <br> two populations<br>Annex C (informative) Worked example<br>Annex D (informative) Relationship of probability to <br> system performance<br>Annex E (informative) Concatenation experiment<br>Bibliography
Gives guidelines for the calculation of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in fibre optic systems to accommodate the statistical variation of PMD and differential group delay (DGD) in optical fibre cables and components.
| Document Type | Standard |
| Status | Current |
| Publisher | International Electrotechnical Committee |
| Committee | TC 86 |
