PD IEC/TR 61282-3:2006

INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 Basic design models for total system PMD performance
  2.1 Notation
  2.2 Calculation of system PMD
3 Calculation of cabled fibre PMD
  3.1 General
  3.2 Method 1: Calculating PMD[Q], the PMD link design
      value
  3.3 Method 2: Calculating the probability of
      exceeding DGD[max]
  3.4 Equivalence of methods
4 Calculation of optical component PMD
5 Summary of acronyms and symbols
Annex A (informative) PMD concatenation fundamentals
Annex B (informative) Combining Maxwell extrema from
        two populations
Annex C (informative) Worked example
Annex D (informative) Relationship of probability to
        system performance
Annex E (informative) Concatenation experiment
Bibliography

Provides guidelines for the calculation of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in fibre optic systems to accommodate the statistical variation of PMD and differential group delay (DGD) in optical fibre cables and components.

This technical report provides guidelines for the calculation of polarisation mode dispersion (PMD) in fibre optic systems. It accomodates the statistical variation of PMD and differential group delay (DGD) of optical fibre cables and optical components in an optical link. Example calculations are given, including concatenating individual optical fibre cables. The calculations describe first order PMD only.