Title :
Performance of fibre-optic time-division multiple access systems
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´ Inf., Parma Univ.
fDate :
1/6/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A theoretical model of fibre-optic time-division multiple access (FO-TDMA) systems is presented. The system performance is analysed by taking account of the effects of optical transmitter extinction ratio r, photodetector and electronic amplifier noise. It is shown that nonzero r is a major impairment which significantly degrades the receiver sensitivity when the number of users N is large. Compared to the single-user system, an FO-TDMA system requires much lower extinction ratio to alleviate the performance degradation when N is larger
Keywords :
digital communication systems; error statistics; noise; optical communication; optical links; optical receivers; sensitivity analysis; time division multiplexing; electronic amplifier noise; fibre-optic TDM systems; optical transmitter extinction ratio; performance degradation; photodetector noise; receiver sensitivity; theoretical model; time-division multiple access;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19940007
