Analysis of interferometric crosstalk in remote delivery of very narrow linewidth millimetre wave signals

Author

Moura, L. ; Darby, M. ; Lane, P.M. ; O´Reilly, J.J.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Feb. 1997

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

56

Abstract

A discussion of interferometric noise arising in a fibre/radio network providing for the broadcast of very narrow linewidth wave signals is presented in terms of BER and power penalty. We use a rigorous formulation based on the modified Chernoff bound which provides an accurate upper bound on the BER. We also compare results given by this approach with the Gaussian approximation and identify conditions for which the Gaussian statistics can be applied with confidence.

Keywords

Gaussian distribution; error statistics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical noise; radio broadcasting; BER; Gaussian approximation; Gaussian statistics; broadcast; fibre/radio network; interferometric crosstalk; interferometric noise; modified Chernoff bound; power penalty; remote delivery; upper bound; very narrow linewidth millimetre wave signals; Bit error rate; Frequency; Intelligent networks; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Applications Digest, 1997., IEEE MTT-S Symposium on Technologies for

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MTTTWA.1997.595110

Filename

595110