ADVANCES IN MODELING HIGH DATA RATE OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Authors:  C.R. Menyuk, R. Holzloehner, I.T. Lima, Jr., B.S. Marks, and J.
Zweck

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250

SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE03), 
San Diego, CA, 2003


Abstract:
Our recent advances in modeling high-data-rate optical fiber
communications systems are reviewed.  We first examine new methodologies
that allow us to accurately calculate the evolution of the noise
covariance matrix during transmission, the receiver's action
on this noise, and from that the BER.  We next examine the application of
importance sampling to calculations of the eye closure penalty due to the
combination of polarization effects and amplifier gain saturation in a
wavelength-division-multiplexed system.