• DocumentCode
    3096109
  • Title

    Subcarrier intensity modulated optical communications over k-distributed Channels

  • Author

    Song, Xuegui ; Cheng, Julian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    163
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    Our analysis shows that subcarrier intensity modulation using DPSK suffers an SNR performance loss of 3.92 dB with respect to BPSK under strong atmospheric turbulence conditions.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric turbulence; differential phase shift keying; intensity modulation; optical communication; BPSK; DPSK; SNR performance; atmospheric turbulence conditions; k-distributed channels; loss 3.92 dB; optical communications; subcarrier intensity modulation; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Differential phase shift keying; Optical fiber communication; Optical losses; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1526-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280799
  • Filename
    6280799