Computing large signal distortions and bit-error ratios in DPSK transmission systems

Author

Spiller, E.T. ; Kath, W.L. ; Moore, R.O. ; McKinstrie, C.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Appl. Math., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1022

Lastpage

1024

Abstract

We demonstrate the application of importance sampling (IS) to the simulation of a soliton-based differential phase-shift-keyed optical transmission system. We use an approximation to the pulse evolution given by perturbation theory and optimized with calculus of variations to guide full numerical Monte Carlo simulations employing IS. The method not only directly determines the bit-error ratio, but also predicts the manner in which large signal distortions occur.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; error statistics; high-speed optical techniques; importance sampling; optical communication; optical distortion; optical solitons; perturbation theory; DPSK transmission systems; Monte Carlo simulations; bit-error ratios; importance sampling; perturbation theory; signal distortions; soliton-based differential phase-shift-keyed optical transmission system; Bit error rate; Detectors; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fluctuations; Forward error correction; Monte Carlo methods; Optical distortion; Phase detection; Phase modulation; Voltage; Bit-error ratio (BER); differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); importance sampling (IS); solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.845656

Filename

1424087