EngineeringCommunicationElectrical EngineeringDigital CommunicationPhotonicsPropagationFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical Communication SystemsOptical Fiber PropagationOptical FibersWave DispersionBit-error Rate AnalysisFiber CharacterizationFiber Polarization EffectsNonlinear Fiber EffectsOptical Transmission SystemsPolarization DispersionPolarization Mode DispersionTemporal Dynamics
Polarisation mode dispersion of an installed 246 km field fiber (G.652) measured over a time span of 14 days allow to simulate system outage characteristics at 10 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s transmission. No outage (BER>10 -12 ) was observed for 10 Gbit/s transmission.