Title :
Improvement of optical fibre systems performance by optimisation of receiver filter bandwidth and use of numerical methods to evaluate Q-factor
Author :
Laedke, E.W. ; Goder, N. ; Schaefer, T. ; Spatschek, K.H. ; Turitsyn, S.
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Theor. Phys., Dusseldorf Univ., Germany
fDate :
11/25/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
By considering as a particular example the fibre transmission line between Madrid and Merida (455 km of singlemode fibre) with strong patterning effects, it is demonstrated that optimisation of the receiver filter bandwidth can lead to a substantial improvement in the performance of an optical amplifier system. Novel statistical methods for numerically estimating the BER are presented
Keywords :
Q-factor; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical receivers; 455 km; Q-factor; bit error rate; numerical method; optical amplifier; optical fibre transmission line; patterning effect; receiver filter bandwidth optimisation; statistical method;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991405
