title: Multicanonical comparison of polarization-mode dispersion compensator performance.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Weihong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yevick
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reimer