DocumentCode
852407
Title
Sensitivity degradation of conventional and balanced 3*3 port phase diversity DPSK receivers due to thermal and local oscillator intensity noise
Author
Patzak, E. ; Lancenhorst, R.
Author_Institution
Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, West Germany
Volume
25
Issue
8
fYear
1989
fDate
4/13/1989 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
545
Lastpage
547
Abstract
The authors propose a balanced configuration for a 3*3 port phase diversity optical receiver. The performance of this receiver is compared with the conventional 3*3 port receiver. Since exact solutions are derived, a comparison of these with the Gaussian approximation is given.
Keywords
digital communication systems; diversity reception; error statistics; optical communication equipment; phase shift keying; random noise; receivers; sensitivity analysis; thermal noise; BER characteristics; DPSK receivers; Gaussian approximation; balanced 3*3 port type; balanced configuration; bit error rate; conventional 3*3 port type; digital transmission; local oscillator intensity noise; optical communications; performance comparison; phase diversity; thermal noise;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19890373
Filename
46157
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