Fundamental limits of electronic signal processing in direct-detection optical communications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1742-1753

  Franceschini, Michael ^a   Bongiorni, Giorgio ^a,c   Ferrari, Gianluigi ^a   Raheli, Riccardo ^a   Meli, Fausto ^b   Castoldi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Cisco Photonics Italy   (Italy)

^c Selta SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Direct photodetection; Electronic dispersion compensation (EDC); Information rate; Maximum likelihood sequence detection (MLSD); On off keying (OOK); Optical duobinary modulation (ODBM); Quantization

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; ELECTRIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS; LIGHT MODULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRONIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD SEQUENCE DETECTION; ON-OFF KEYING; OPTICAL DUOBINARY MODULATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34547119534     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.899156     Document Type: Article

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