Impact of extinction ratio on return-to-zero coding gain in optical noise limited receivers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 879-881

  Pauer, Martin ^a   Winzer, Peter J ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction ratio; Optically preamplified receiver; Return to zero (RZ) coding

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FINITE DATA MODULATOR; OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; RETURN TO ZERO CODING;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0038182587     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.811149     Document Type: Article

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