DocumentCode
3593378
Title
Photon statistics of NRZ signals in a high-bit-rate optically pre-amplified direct detection receiver
Author
Wong, W.S. ; Moores, J.D. ; Korn, J. ; Haus, H.A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Volume
2
fYear
1999
Firstpage
265
Abstract
We verify experimentally, over a dynamic range of 58 dB in the probability distribution, that the preamplified laser light in a lightwave receiver, rather than being Gaussian distributed, is noncentral-negative-binomial distributed.
Keywords
optical noise; optical receivers; sensitivity; statistical analysis; telecommunication signalling; Gaussian distributed; NRZ signals; dynamic range; high-bit-rate optically pre-amplified direct detection receiver; lightwave receiver; noncentral-negative-binomial distributed; photon statistics; preamplified laser light; probability distribution; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical detectors; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Statistics; Stimulated emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest
Print_ISBN
1-55752-582-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OFC.1999.766404
Filename
766404
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