Abstract
We use multiple importance-sampling (IS) to measure the Q degradation due to PMD emulated by three programmable DGD elements with uniform polarization-coupling between sections. The measured Q-penalty probability distribution extends to <10−17 with only 1800 samples. Without IS, >1017 samples are required to examine such low-probability events.
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