Title :
Theoretical investigation of local oscillator intensity noise in optical homodyne systems
Author :
Gross, Richard ; Meissner, Peter ; Patzak, Erwin
Author_Institution :
Heinrich-Hertz Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, West Germany
fDate :
4/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The degradation of system performance due to the intensity noise from a semiconductor local oscillator laser is theoretically investigated. A statistical model for the optical receiver is presented to calculate the bit error rate and the power penalty resulting from the local oscillator intensity noise. The power penalty depends critically on the noise power, data rate, and spectral characteristics of the noise. Simulation results are given for homodyne systems and compared to the results of Gaussian approximation
Keywords :
noise; optical communication equipment; receivers; statistical analysis; Gaussian approximation; bit error rate; data rate; intensity noise; noise power; optical homodyne systems; optical receiver; oscillator intensity noise; power penalty; semiconductor local oscillator laser; spectral characteristics; statistical model; system performance; Degradation; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Local oscillators; Optical noise; Power system modeling; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; System performance;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
