Exploiting diversity in multimode fiber communications links via multisegment detectors and equalization

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 400-402

  Argon, Cenk ^a   Patel, Ketan M ^a   McLaughlin, Steven W ^a   Ralph, Stephen E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity combination; Equalization; Multimode fiber (MMF); Multisegment detection; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; DIVERSITY COMBINATION; ELECTRICAL EQUALIZATION TECHNIQUE; INTERMODAL DISPERSION; OPTICAL MULTISEGMENT DETECTORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0041386265     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2003.815658     Document Type: Article

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