BER estimation in optical fiber transmission systems employing all-optical 2R regenerators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 746-754

  Heinberger, Rainer ^a   Hoshida, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe, Shigeki ^a   Onaka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical 2R; Bit error rate (BER); Error analysis; Optical regeneration

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CALCULATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALL-OPTICAL REGENERATOR; CLAMPING FACTOR; NONLINEAR TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; OPTICAL REGENERATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 2142840996     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.824559     Document Type: Article

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