Capacity of the low-photon-rate direct-detection optical pulse-position-modulation channel in the presence of noise photons

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1776-1782

  Bell, Mark R ^a   Tseng, Shu Ming ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CODING; LIGHT MODULATION; SHOT NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

NOISE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0013247814     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001776     Document Type: Article

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