Efficient BER Estimation for Electrical QAM Signal in Radio-Over-Fiber Transmission

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-146

  Louchet, Hadrien ^a   Kuzmin, Konstantin ^a   Richter, André ^b  

^a VPIphotonics   (Germany)

^b Development Center   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER) estimation; error statistics; microwave photonics; nonlinear distortion; optical noise; quadra ture amplitude modulation (QAM); radio over fiber (RoF); sub carrier multiplexing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008043311     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.912536     Document Type: Article

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