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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Probability of anomalously large bit-error rate in long haul optical transmission
V Chernyak1, M Chertkov, I Kolokolov
1Corning Inc., SP-DV-02-8, Corning, New York 14831, USA.
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|February 3, 2004
Abstract:
We consider a linear model of optical transmission through a fiber with birefringent disorder in the presence of amplifier noise. Both disorder and noise are assumed to be weak, i.e., the average bit-error rate (BER) is small. The probability distribution function (PDF) of rare violent events leading to the values of BER much larger than its typical value is estimated. We show that the PDF has a long algebraic-like tail.
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