Title :
Effect of line code on linewidth requirement of balanced optical homodyne receiver
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radio Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecomun., China
Abstract :
The linewidth requirement of a balanced homodyne receiver using several zero-mean-disparity line codes is analysed. It is found that the linewidth tolerance can be increased by 10-100 times by using these line codes.
Keywords :
information theory; optical communication; receivers; BER; balanced optical homodyne receiver; bit error rate; linewidth requirement; linewidth tolerance; zero-mean-disparity line codes;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19920277
