Title : 
Influence of IF-filtering on bit error rate floor in coherent optical DPSK-systems
         
        
            Author : 
Patzak, E. ; Meissner, P.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. GmbH, Berlin, West Germany
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
10/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The authors investigate the influence of IF-filtering on the bit error rate floor in optical DPSK-systems; this influence is usually neglected. They show that the IF-filtering leads to a reduction of the error rate floor, so that the linewidth requirements are reduced by a factor of 0.68
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical links; optical modulation; phase shift keying; signal detection; spatial filters; IF-filtering; bit error rate floor; coherent optical DPSK-systems; delay phase shift keying;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings J