Multicanonical comparison of polarization-mode dispersion compensator performance.
We employ a modified version of the multicanonical algorithm to evaluate the system penalties and outage probabilities of different polarization-mode dispersion compensators. The procedure determines the optimal operating conditions for each compensator architecture far more efficiently than the standard Monte Carlo algorithm.
Lu
Tao
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Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Huang
Weihong
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Yevick
David
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O'Sullivan
Maurice
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Reimer
Michael
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