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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1526-6
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280799
