A Gaussian Polar Model for Error Rates of Differential Phase Detection Impaired by Linear, Nonlinear, and Laser Phase Noises

Author

Atzmon, Yuval ; Nazarathy, Moshe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

27

Issue

21

fYear

2009

Firstpage

4650

Lastpage

4659

Abstract

We develop a simple analytic gaussian model, predicting BER performance of optical DPSK receivers with high accuracy in the wake of all three phase noise sources impairing differential phase detection: linear phase noise (ASE-induced), nonlinear phase noise (the Gordon-Mollenauer effect), and laser phase noise Brownian fluctuations. We validate our analytical Q-factor based formulas using known analytical cases and importance-sampling based Monte-Carlo simulations.

Keywords

Brownian motion; Gaussian noise; Monte Carlo methods; Q-factor; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; self-phase modulation; Gaussian polar model; Gordon-Mollenauer effect; Monte-Carlo simulations; Q-factor; bit error rate; differential phase detection; differential phase shift keying; laser noise; laser phase noise Brownian fluctuations; linear phase noise; nonlinear phase noise; optical DPSK receivers; optical fiber communication; optical filtering; self-phase modulation; Bit error rate (BER); Q-factor; differential phase shift keying (DPSK); gaussian noise; laser linewidth; laser noise; optical fiber communication; optical filtering; phase noise; self-phase modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2026461

Filename

5153340