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Transition Matrix Methods

SPEAKER: Professor David Yevick, Department of Physics, University of WaterlooABSTRACT: The transition matrix contains the probabilities that a system will
evolve between any two sets of states in a given time interval. In this
presentation, we demonstrate that techniques similar to the
multicanonical method can be employed to find the elements of the
transition matrix between pairs of rarely occurring states in an optical
communication system. This result is then applied to determine the
probability distribution of outage times resulting from polarization
mode delay (PMD).BIO: David Yevick was born in New York City on May 3, 1954. He received the A B. degree in physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1974,
the M A. and Ph D degrees in physics from Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, in 1975 and 1977, respectively.Dr. Yevick is a professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON,
Canada. He has written more than 160 papers involving the application of
numerical and analytic procedures to optical fibers, integrated optics,
and semiconductor laser modeling and, more recently, optical
communication system analysis. Dr. Yevick is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the IEEE and the American Physical Society (APS).Host: Alan Willner, willner@usc.edu

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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