DocumentCode
3230912
Title
Photocurrent distribution of a superfluorescent fiber source
Author
Nguyen, Lim ; Young, James F. ; Aazhang, Behnaam
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
Volume
2
fYear
1995
fDate
30 Oct-2 Nov 1995
Firstpage
398
Abstract
We report measurements of the photocurrent of a PIN photodiode illuminated by a spectrum-sliced, erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source. The statistical distribution of the current fluctuation is non-Gaussian. The true statistics predict much improved performance over the Gaussian assumption for spectrum-spliced WDMA systems
Keywords
current distribution; current fluctuations; fibre lasers; light sources; photoconductivity; superradiance; PIN photodiode; current fluctuation; erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source; nonGaussian statistics; photocurrent distribution; spectrum-spliced WDMA systems; Bit error rate; Fluctuations; Gaussian distribution; Niobium; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Photoconductivity; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical distributions;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2450-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484770
Filename
484770
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