Abstract
A short recirculating fiber loop (~100 km) that can emulate PMD with Maxwellian statistics is realized by loop-synchronous polarization scrambling inside the loop. The performance of our distribution-correct PMD loop is compared both experimentally and numerically to that of a distribution-incorrect PMD loop.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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