Performance of Convolutional Codes in a Direct-Detection Optical PPM Channel

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1989, Pages 1303-1317

  Forestieri, Enrico ^a   Gangopadhyay, Ranjan ^b   Prati, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC--DECODING; PULSE TIME MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES, PHOTODIODE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING--SIGNAL ENCODING;

AVALANCHE PHOTODETECTION; BIT ERROR PROBABILITY; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; OPTICAL PPM CHANNEL; PULSE-POSITION MODULATION; VITERBI DECODING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0024936383     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.44202     Document Type: Article

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