Use of multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations to obtain accurate bit error rates in optical communications systems

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 1894-1896

  Holzlöhner, Ronald ^a   Menyuk, Curtis R ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX METHODS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0142062117     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/ol.28.001894     Document Type: Article

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