Impact of noise and nonlinear distortion due to clipping on the BER performance of a 64-QAM signal in hybrid AM-VSB/QAM optical fiber transmission system

Author

Pham, Kinh ; Conradi, Jan ; Cormack, George ; Thomas, Bob ; Anderson, Carl W.

Volume

13

Issue

11

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2197

Lastpage

2201

Abstract

Experimental BER measurements of a 64-QAM signal in a hybrid AM-VSB/QAM optical fiber transmission system are shown to be in good agreement with a corrected and reinterpreted theory of impulsive and Gaussian noise based on Middleton´s class B impulsive noise model. Fiber dispersion induced distortion of the chirped laser output is also shown to adversely affect the QAM signal

Keywords

Gaussian noise; cable television; chirp modulation; error statistics; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; 64-QAM signal; BER performance; Gaussian noise; Middleton class B impulsive noise model; cable television; chirped laser output; clipping; fiber dispersion induced distortion; hybrid AM-VSB/QAM optical fiber transmission system; impulsive noise; noise; nonlinear distortion; Bit error rate; Distortion measurement; Gaussian noise; Noise measurement; Nonlinear distortion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber theory; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.482039

Filename

482039