Sudden environmental effects, such as mechanical vibration, wind, and lightning, impart
microsecond-timescale changes to the transmission matrix of multimode optical fibers. We …

Environmental perturbations, such as wind, mechanical stress, temperature, and lightning,
impose microsecond-time-scale changes to the transfer matrix of a multimode fiber (MMF) …

This chapter provides a relatively low-level introduction to the problem of rare event
simulation with Monte Carlo methods and to a class of methods known as variance …

We present a cross-entropy (CE)-based method to design 2-D zero reference codes (ZRCs)
with minimum diffractive effects. Without diffraction effects, the optimum ZRC design problem …

A hybrid hinge model is proposed to characterize polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in
installed optical fiber communication systems. The model reduces to previously considered …

An adaptive variance reduction technique was recently proposed to efficiently study
transmission errors induced by polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fiber …

This thesis examines polarization and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) dynamics in
optical fibers as well as the evaluation of probability density functions and bit error rates in a …

Many engineering applications require optimization of the system performance subject to
reliability constraints, which are commonly referred to as the reliability based design and …

This study considers the use of the dc-biased optical orthogonal frequency-division
multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) resource allocation technique to mitigate the crosstalk effect in a …

We present analytic expressions for the temporal autocorrelation functions (ACF's) of the
polarization mode dispersion (PMD) vector, the squared differential group delay (DGD) and …