Title :
Photocurrent distribution of a superfluorescent fiber source
Author :
Nguyen, Lim ; Young, James F. ; Aazhang, Behnaam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA
fDate :
30 Oct-2 Nov 1995
Abstract :
We report measurements of the photocurrent of a PIN photodiode illuminated by a spectrum-sliced, erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source. The statistical distribution of the current fluctuation is non-Gaussian. The true statistics predict much improved performance over the Gaussian assumption for spectrum-spliced WDMA systems
Keywords :
current distribution; current fluctuations; fibre lasers; light sources; photoconductivity; superradiance; PIN photodiode; current fluctuation; erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source; nonGaussian statistics; photocurrent distribution; spectrum-spliced WDMA systems; Bit error rate; Fluctuations; Gaussian distribution; Niobium; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Photoconductivity; Signal to noise ratio; Statistical distributions;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2450-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484770
