title: Optical impairment outage computation.
abstract: This work details a method to compute a probability of outage of a set of concatenated optical links with respect to multiple simultaneous optical impairments.
authors.affiliation: National ICT Australia, Victorian Research Laboratory, Building 193, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. jcli@ee.unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hinton
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Farrell
authors.forename: Sarah D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Dods