Guest Speaker: Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona, USA and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia

When: Sept. 12; 4:00pm

Where: Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems; 2nd floor (Kosygina street, 2)

What: Gross Impact of slim chances: Errors in optical fiber systems

Abstract: High-speed optical fiber communications represent one of the most rapidly growing areas of the modern technology. This growth is driven by the constantly raising demand for higher bandwidth of information infrastructure. Optical fiber is a key component of modern communication infrastructure which is capable to keep up with this demand. However, there are a number of factors limiting the capacity of fiber optical networks. The noise of the optical amplifiers and spatial disorder of the fiber links caused by the inhomogeneity of fiber characteristics have a significant impact on the quality of data transmission. It will be shown that: these factors lead to fluctuations in the level of errors (BER – bit-error-rate) and probability distribution function of these fluctuations has long extended tails, which might cause outages in optical fiber systems. Theoretical results will be verified against experimental data.

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