Multilevel data communication over optical fibre

Author

Pollard, J.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK

Volume

138

Issue

3

fYear

1991

fDate

6/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

168

Abstract

An investigation of the characteristics of several multilevel ´alphabetic´ line codes of type ´mBn X´ is described. Multilevel codeclasses which used two dictionaries and up to five (´mBn 5´) different symbols were considered. A total of thirteen different optical fibre communication systems were designed. The extra power budget, transmission efficiency, hardware complexity, and end-to-end delays of multilevel alphabetic line coders were compared with binary and ´linear´ line coders. A data communication simulator was built called SIMALCODE: simulator for alphabetic line coding and decoding. This allowed examination of the required type of line coder in terms of timing extraction, error detection strategies and the buffering for the required data reliability.<>

Keywords

error detection codes; local area networks; optical links; pulse amplitude modulation; PAM; SIMALCODE; alphabetic line coding; data communication simulator; decoding; end-to-end delays; error detection strategies; hardware complexity; local area networks; multilevel codeclasses; multilevel data communications; optical fibre communication; timing extraction; transmission efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, Speech and Vision, IEE Proceedings I

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0956-3776

Type

jour

Filename

87861