• DocumentCode
    2816978
  • Title

    Factors affecting the signal quality in optical data transmission and estimation method for BER and SNR

  • Author

    Kartalopoulos, Stamatios V.

  • Author_Institution
    Telecommun. Syst., Oklahoma Univ., Norman, OK, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    5-7 April 2004
  • Firstpage
    615
  • Abstract
    Optical communication in fiber and photonic devices is subject to power loss and signal distortion due to linear and nonlinear phenomena. We provide an analysis of factors that affect the signal quality and we describe a method to estimate the signal bit error rate based on eye diagram sampling and statistical estimates.
  • Keywords
    distortion; error statistics; estimation theory; jitter; noise; optical fibre networks; signal processing; bit error rate; fiber optical communication; optical data transmission; photonic devices; power loss; signal distortion; signal quality; signal-to-noise ratio; statistical estimation method; Bit error rate; Data communication; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Signal analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2108-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286721
  • Filename
    1286721