Title :
Photon statistics of NRZ signals in a high-bit-rate optically pre-amplified direct detection receiver
Author :
Wong, W.S. ; Moores, J.D. ; Korn, J. ; Haus, H.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We verify experimentally, over a dynamic range of 58 dB in the probability distribution, that the preamplified laser light in a lightwave receiver, rather than being Gaussian distributed, is noncentral-negative-binomial distributed.
Keywords :
optical noise; optical receivers; sensitivity; statistical analysis; telecommunication signalling; Gaussian distributed; NRZ signals; dynamic range; high-bit-rate optically pre-amplified direct detection receiver; lightwave receiver; noncentral-negative-binomial distributed; photon statistics; preamplified laser light; probability distribution; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical detectors; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Statistics; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-582-X
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1999.766404
