Title :
Error-rate performance of optical amplifiers with Fabry-Perot filters
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
fDate :
4/27/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The error-rate performance of an ON-OFF keyed lightwave receiver having an optical amplifier followed by a Fabry-Perot filter is analysed. Receivers with sampling and with integrate-and-dump threshold comparison are compared with the well known result for a matched optical filter. The Fabry-Perot filter decreases the sensitivity at 10-9 error rate from 76 to 89 photon/bit (peak) with optimum optical filter bandwidth and postdetection integration time
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; optical fibres; optical filters; optical receivers; Fabry-Perot filters; error-rate performance; integrate-and-dump threshold comparison; lightwave receiver; matched optical filter; optical amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical filter bandwidth; postdetection integration time; sampling receivers;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19950474
