Optimizing constellations for single-subcarrier intensity-modulated optical systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4645-4659

  Karout, Johnny ^a   Agrell, Erik ^a   Szczerba, Krzysztof ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Direct detection; fiber optical communications; free space optical communications; infrared communications; intensity modulation; lattice codes; mutual information; noncoherent communications; sphere packing

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DETECTION; FIBER-OPTICAL; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; INFRARED COMMUNICATION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LATTICE CODES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NONCOHERENT COMMUNICATION; SPHERE PACKINGS;

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PACKING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84862510973     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2012.2193374     Document Type: Article

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