title: Characterization of the time dependence of polarization mode dispersion.
abstract: We elaborate on a recently proposed model of the temporal dependence of polarization mode dispersion in long fiber links. We evaluate the probability that a channel of a wavelength-division multiplexed system never incurs an outage, and the range of frequency over which the parameters that characterize the temporal statistics of the differential group delay are correlated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy. amecozzi@ing.univaq.it
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mecozzi
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boroditsky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brodsky