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The Gaussian Noise Model Extended to Polarization Dependent Loss and its Application to Outage Probability Estimation

23 September 2018

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We extend for the first time the Gaussian-noise model to account for polarization dependent loss (PDL) and validate it both numerically and experimentally. The model can be used to estimate outage probabilities induced by PDL-nonlinearity interaction in fast simulation times.