Analytical expression for the bit error rate of cascaded all-optical regenerators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1479-1481

  Mørk, Jesper ^a   Öhman, Filip ^a   Bischoff, Svend ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

All optical; Noise; Optical communications; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIT ERROR RATE; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL LINKS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING JITTER;

CASCADED FIBER LINKS; OPTICAL REGENERATORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0141884010     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818059     Document Type: Article

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