The use of WMC distribution for performance evaluation of APD optical communication systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 279-285

  Tang, Jimmy T K ^a   Ben Letaief, Khaled ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Apd receivers; Bit error rate evaluation methods; Optical communication

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0031996409     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.659486     Document Type: Article

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