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Second-Order PMD

• PMD2 arises from the optical-frequency-dependent behavior of ????0), both in magnitude and in orientation

PMD2= 2?c ??????????(ref: Gisin)

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• units of ps/nm

• grows as L

• effect on power penalty averages to zero, but yields large fluctuation

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