title: Statistics of the polarization mode dispersion dynamics.
abstract: We characterize the joint two-time statistics of the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) vector. Good agreement with experimental PMD measurements taken on an installed system is achieved. The results can be used to obtain the temporal evolution of the average penalty of a system close to an outage condition.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione, Università dell'Aquila, Poggio di Roio, L'Aquila, 67040 Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mecozzi
authors.forename: Cristian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Antonelli
authors.forename: Misha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brodsky