Stokes-space analysis of modal dispersion in fibers with multiple mode transmission

Cristian Antonelli; Antonio Mecozzi; Mark Shtaif; Peter J. Winzer

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Stokes-space analysis of modal dispersion in fibers with multiple mode transmission

Cristian Antonelli, Antonio Mecozzi, Mark Shtaif, and Peter J. Winzer

Optics Express
Vol. 20,
Issue 11,
pp. 11718-11733
(2012)
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- Original Manuscript: February 2, 2012
- Revised Manuscript: March 28, 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: March 29, 2012
- Published: May 9, 2012

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Modal dispersion (MD) in a multimode fiber may be considered as a generalized form of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in single mode fibers. Using this analogy, we extend the formalism developed for PMD to characterize MD in fibers with multiple spatial modes. We introduce a MD vector defined in a D-dimensional extended Stokes space whose square length is the sum of the square group delays of the generalized principal states. For strong mode coupling, the MD vector undertakes a D-dimensional isotropic random walk, so that the distribution of its length is a chi distribution with D degrees of freedom. We also characterize the largest differential group delay, that is the difference between the delays of the fastest and the slowest principal states, and show that it too is very well approximated by a chi distribution, although in general with a smaller number of degrees of freedom. Finally, we study the spectral properties of MD in terms of the frequency autocorrelation functions of the MD vector, of the square modulus of the MD vector, and of the largest differential group delay. The analytical results are supported by extensive numerical simulations.

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A. Galtarossa, L. Palmieri, M. Schiano, and T. Tambosso, “Measurement of birefringence correlation length in long, single-mode fibers,” Opt. Lett. 26, 962–964 (2001).
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[Crossref]

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N. Gisin, “Statistics of polarization dependent losses,” Opt. Commun. 114, 399–405 (1995).
[Crossref]

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J. P. Gordon and H. Kogelnik, “PMD fundamentals: polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4541–4550 (2000).
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K-P. Ho and J. M Kahn, “Mode-dependent loss and gain: statistics and effect on mode-division multiplexing,” Opt. Express 19, 16612–16635 (2011).
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[Crossref]

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Ip, E.

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[Crossref]

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J. P. Gordon and H. Kogelnik, “PMD fundamentals: polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4541–4550 (2000).
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[Crossref]

Molisch, A. F.

D. Cassioli, M. Z. Win, and A. F. Molisch, “The ultra-wide bandwidth indoor channel: from statistical model to simulations,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 20, 1247–1257 (2002).
[Crossref]

Monberg, E. M.

Montero, C.

Mumtaz, S.

Munro, W. J.

D. F. V. James, P. G. Kwiat, W. J. Munro, and A. G. White, “Measurement of qubits,” Phys. Rev. A 64, 052312 (2001).
[Crossref]

Nazarathy, M.

Palmieri, L.

A. Galtarossa, L. Palmieri, M. Schiano, and T. Tambosso, “Measurement of birefringence correlation length in long, single-mode fibers,” Opt. Lett. 26, 962–964 (2001).
[Crossref]

Pan, Y.

Peckham, D. W.

Peckham, D.W.

Peng, G.D.

Prieto, X.

Provost, L.

Randel, S.

Ryf, R.

Salsi, M.

Sasaki, T.

Schiano, M.

A. Galtarossa, L. Palmieri, M. Schiano, and T. Tambosso, “Measurement of birefringence correlation length in long, single-mode fibers,” Opt. Lett. 26, 962–964 (2001).
[Crossref]

Shtaif, M.

M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, “Study of the frequency autocorrelation of the differential group delay in fibers with polarization mode dispersion,” Opt. Lett. 25, 707–709 (2000).
[Crossref]

Sierra, A.

Sillard, P.

Simony, E.

Sperti, D.

Tam, H.Y.

Tambosso, T.

A. Galtarossa, L. Palmieri, M. Schiano, and T. Tambosso, “Measurement of birefringence correlation length in long, single-mode fibers,” Opt. Lett. 26, 962–964 (2001).
[Crossref]

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D. F. V. James, P. G. Kwiat, W. J. Munro, and A. G. White, “Measurement of qubits,” Phys. Rev. A 64, 052312 (2001).
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D. Cassioli, M. Z. Win, and A. F. Molisch, “The ultra-wide bandwidth indoor channel: from statistical model to simulations,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 20, 1247–1257 (2002).
[Crossref]

Winzer, P. J.

Winzer, P.J.

Winzer, Peter J.

Peter J. Winzer and Gerard J. Foschini, “MIMO capacities and outage probabilities in spatially multiplexed optical transport systems,” Opt. Express 19, 16680–16696 (2011).
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Yan, M. F.

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R. W. Tkach, “Scaling optical communications for the next decade and beyond,” Bell Labs Tech. J. 14, 3–9 (2010).
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D. Cassioli, M. Z. Win, and A. F. Molisch, “The ultra-wide bandwidth indoor channel: from statistical model to simulations,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. 20, 1247–1257 (2002).
[Crossref]

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K-P. Ho and J. M Kahn, “Statistics of group delays in multi-mode fibers with strong mode coupling,” J. Lightwave Technol. 29, 3119–3128 (2011).
[Crossref]

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N. Gisin, “Statistics of polarization dependent losses,” Opt. Commun. 114, 399–405 (1995).
[Crossref]

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K-P. Ho and J. M Kahn, “Mode-dependent loss and gain: statistics and effect on mode-division multiplexing,” Opt. Express 19, 16612–16635 (2011).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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S. Fan and J. M. Kahn, “Principal modes in multi-mode waveguides”, Opt. Lett. 30, 135–137 (2005).
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M. Karlsson and J. Brentel, “The autocorrelation function of the polarization-mode dispersion vector,” Opt. Lett. 24, 939–941 (1999).
[Crossref]

M. Shtaif and A. Mecozzi, “Study of the frequency autocorrelation of the differential group delay in fibers with polarization mode dispersion,” Opt. Lett. 25, 707–709 (2000).
[Crossref]

A. Galtarossa, L. Palmieri, M. Schiano, and T. Tambosso, “Measurement of birefringence correlation length in long, single-mode fibers,” Opt. Lett. 26, 962–964 (2001).
[Crossref]

Opt”. Express (1)

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M. Gell-Mann, “Symmetries of baryons and mesons,” Phys. Rev. 125, 1067–1084 (1962).
[Crossref]

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D. F. V. James, P. G. Kwiat, W. J. Munro, and A. G. White, “Measurement of qubits,” Phys. Rev. A 64, 052312 (2001).
[Crossref]

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (1)

J. P. Gordon and H. Kogelnik, “PMD fundamentals: polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4541–4550 (2000).
[Crossref] [PubMed]

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A. R. Chraplyvy, “The coming capacity crunch,” European Conference on Optical Communication 2009 (ECOC09), plenary talk (2009).

In the literature the shape parameter KN is typically referred to as the number of degrees of freedom of the chi distribution. We refrain from this terminology so as to avoid confusion with the number of degrees of freedom Deff representing the dimension of the manyfold spanned by the MD vector in the generalized Stokes space.

The more common terminology for the vector operation defined in Eq. (28) is Lie bracket. We prefer the term generalized cross-product for emphasizing the analogy with the case of PMD.

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Fig. 1

Probability density function of τ for N = 2, normalized to its root-mean square value. The coupling magnitude increases from no coupling in (a) to full coupling in (d). A similar behavior has been verified for a number of larger values of N.

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Fig. 2

Top panel. The solid line represents the shape parameter K_N of the chi PDF that provides the best approximation of the distribution of the largest DGD T as a function of N; the dashed line shows the mean square value of T normalized to 〈τ²〉/N². Bottom panels. Probability density function of T for (A) N = 3, (B) N = 50 and (C) N = 100. Dots are the results of Monte-Carlo simulations, solid lines are the plot of chi PDFs with parameters taken from the top panel.

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Fig. 3

Top panels: normalized autocorrelation function of τ⃗ according to theory (solid curve) and simulations (stars). Bottom panels: the normalized autocorrelation function of τ² according to theory (solid curve) and simulations (stars) as well as the autocorrelation function of T (circles). Dot-dashed curves represent the re-scaled ACF of τ² Eq. (5), modified by replacing D with K_N as from Fig. 2.

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Fig. 4

(a) Probability density function of the length of the MD vector τ⃗_LP₁₁ that represents the four LP₁₁ modes (subspace dimension D_LP₁₁ = 15) and of the length of the MD vector τ⃗_LP₀₁ that represents the two LP₀₁ modes (subspace dimension D_LP₁₁ = 3). The degree of coupling between the two groups of modes is discussed in the text. Figures (b) and (c) show the ACFs of the the two MD vectors. Symbols refer to numerical simulations, solid lines to the theory.

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Equations (33)

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τ^{2} = 2 N \sum_{i = 1}^{2 N} t_{i}^{2} .

K_{N} ≃ 3 + ⌈ 10.39 \times {(N - 1)}^{1.36} ⌉

〈 T^{2} 〉 ≃ \frac{{(N - 1)}^{2} + 24.7 \times (N - 1) + 16.14}{0.2532 \times {(N - 1)}^{2} + 7.401 \times (N - 1) + 16.14} 〈 τ^{2} 〉 / N^{2},

R_{\vec{τ}} (ω) = 〈 \vec{τ} (Ω + ω) \cdot \vec{τ} (Ω) 〉 = \frac{D}{ω^{2}} [1 - exp (- \frac{ω^{2} 〈 τ^{2} 〉}{D})],

R_{τ^{2}} (ω) = 〈 τ^{2} (Ω + ω) τ^{2} (Ω) 〉 = {〈 τ^{2} 〉}^{2} + \frac{4 〈 τ^{2} 〉}{ω^{2}} - \frac{4 D}{ω^{4}} [1 - exp (- \frac{ω^{2} 〈 τ^{2} 〉}{D})] .

| ψ (z) 〉 = U (z, z_{0}) | ψ (z_{0}) 〉,

\frac{d U (z, z_{0})}{d z} = i B (z) U (z, z_{0})

\frac{d U (z, z_{0})}{d ω} = i T (z, z_{0}) U (z, z_{0}),

\frac{1}{2 N} Trace {Λ_{i} Λ_{j}} = δ_{i, j},

H = \frac{1}{2 N} (η_{0} 1 + \vec{η} \cdot \vec{Λ}),

\vec{η} \cdot \vec{Λ} = \sum_{j = 1}^{4 N^{2} - 1} η_{j} Λ_{j} .

\begin{matrix} η_{i} = trace {Λ_{i} H} & and & η_{0} = trace {H} . \end{matrix}

| ψ 〉 〈 ψ | = \frac{1}{2 N} (1 + \vec{ψ} \cdot \vec{Λ}) .

ψ_{j} = trace {Λ_{j} | ψ 〉 〈 ψ |} = 〈 ψ | Λ_{j} | ψ 〉,

{| 〈 ψ | ϕ 〉 |}^{2} = \frac{1}{2 N} (1 + \vec{ψ} \cdot \vec{ϕ}),

\frac{1}{2 N} trace {(\vec{A} \cdot \vec{Λ}) (\vec{B} \cdot \vec{Λ})} = \vec{A} \cdot \vec{B},

\vec{S} \cdot {\vec{ψ}}_{i} = θ_{i},

2 N {| \vec{S} |}^{2} = \sum θ_{i}^{2} .

\frac{d U (z, z_{0})}{d z} = \frac{i}{2 N} (β_{0} 1 + \vec{β} \cdot \vec{Λ}) U (z, z_{0})

\frac{d U (z, z_{0})}{d ω} = \frac{i}{2 N} (τ_{0} 1 + \vec{τ} \cdot \vec{Λ}) U (z, z_{0}),

\vec{τ} \cdot \vec{Λ} = - 2 N i \frac{d U}{d ω} U^{†} = - 2 N i \frac{d U_{2}}{d ω} U_{2}^{†} + U_{2} (- 2 N i \frac{d U_{1}}{d ω} U_{1}^{†}) U_{2}^{†} = {\vec{τ}}_{2} \cdot \vec{Λ} + U_{2} ({\vec{τ}}_{1} \cdot \vec{Λ}) U_{2}^{†},

{| {\vec{τ}}_{1}^{(R)} |}^{2} = \frac{1}{2 N} trace {{[U_{2} ({\vec{τ}}_{1} \cdot \vec{Λ}) U_{2}^{†}]}^{2}} = {| {\vec{τ}}_{1} |}^{2},

\frac{\partial}{\partial z} (\vec{τ} \cdot \vec{Λ}) = {\vec{β}}_{ω} \cdot \vec{Λ} + \frac{i}{2 N} [(\vec{β} \cdot \vec{Λ}) (\vec{τ} \cdot \vec{Λ}) - (\vec{τ} \cdot \vec{Λ}) (\vec{β} \cdot \vec{Λ})],

\vec{τ} (L) = \int_{0}^{L} R (L, z) {\vec{β}}_{ω} d z

U (L, z) ({\vec{β}}_{ω} \cdot \vec{Λ}) U^{†} (L, z) = (R (L, z) {\vec{β}}_{ω}) \cdot \vec{Λ} .

τ^{2} = 2 N \sum_{i = 1}^{2 N} t_{i}^{2},

f_{i, j, k} = \frac{i}{{(2 N)}^{2}} trace {Λ_{k} (Λ_{i} Λ_{j} - Λ_{j} Λ_{i})} .

\vec{A} \times \vec{β} = \sum_{i, j, k} f_{i, j, k} A_{i} B_{j} {\vec{e}}_{k}

\frac{\partial \vec{τ}}{\partial z} = {\vec{β}}_{ω} + \vec{β} \times \vec{τ},

\begin{matrix} \frac{\partial \vec{S}}{\partial z} = \vec{β} \times \vec{S}, & \frac{\partial \vec{S}}{\partial ω} = \vec{τ} \times \vec{S}, \end{matrix}

d \vec{τ} = d \vec{W} + ω d \vec{W} \times \vec{τ},

\begin{matrix} Λ_{1} = σ_{1} = (\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & - 1 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{2} = σ_{2} = (\begin{matrix} 0 & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{3} = σ_{3} = (\begin{matrix} 0 & - i \\ i & 0 \end{matrix}) . \end{matrix}

\begin{array}{l} Λ_{1} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & - 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{2} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{3} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & - i & 0 & 0 \\ i & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), \\ Λ_{4} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & - 1 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{5} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{6} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & - i \\ 0 & 0 & i & 0 \end{matrix}), \\ Λ_{7} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{8} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{9} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), \\ Λ_{10} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{11} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & i & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ - i & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{12} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & i \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ - i & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), \\ Λ_{13} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & i & 0 \\ 0 & - i & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{14} = \sqrt{2} (\begin{matrix} 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & i \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & - i & 0 & 0 \end{matrix}), & Λ_{15} = (\begin{matrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & - 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & - 1 \end{matrix}) . \end{array}

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