Outage vs PMD Tolerance Trade-Off for Fast Polarization Scrambling
24 September 2006
A theory for the outages probability of PMD mitigation by fast scrambling has been evaluated. For 42.7 Gbit/s NRZ-ASK the PMD tolerance can be extended with 1e-5 outage from 3.8 to 5.6ps by 5 scramblers.