• DocumentCode
    3623824
  • Title

    Calculation of Achievable Information Rates of Long-Haul Optical Transmission Systems using Instanton Approach

  • Author

    Milos Ivkovic;Ivan Djordjevic;Bane Vasic

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Email: milos@math.arizona.edu
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1287
  • Lastpage
    1291
  • Abstract
    A method for estimation of achievable information rates of high-speed optical transmission systems is proposed. This method consists of two steps: (i) approximating probability density functions for energy of pulses, which is done by instanton approach; (ii) estimating achievable information rates by a modification of a method originally proposed by Arnold and Pfitser. Numerical results for a specific optical transmission system (submarine system at transmission rate 40 Gb/s) are reported
  • Keywords
    "Information rates","Optical fiber dispersion","Optical noise","High speed optical techniques","Optical sensors","Fiber nonlinear optics","Nonlinear optics","Optical scattering","Optical fibers","Probability density function"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
  • ISSN
    2157-8095
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0505-X
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2157-8117
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2006.262033
  • Filename
    4036173