Bit error probability simulation for RZ-coded free space laser links

Author

Pauer, M. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Kalmar, Andras

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

228

Abstract

Degradations in the performance of any communication system can be attributed to noise or to intersymbol interference (ISI). In an optical receiver, noise contributions can either be signal-independent (e.g. electrical noise) or signal-dependent (e.g. beat noise between signal and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), if optical preamplification is employed). Since there is no signal dispersion along the transmission tunnel in case of optical free space communication, ISI is introduced solely by bandwidth limitations within the receiver, especially if receiver bandwidths of the order of 0.5 times the data rate or less are considered. Because of ISI, reliable analytical calculations of bit error probability (BEP) are problematic in general

Keywords

encoding; error statistics; laser noise; optical links; optical receivers; space communication links; RZ-coded free space laser links; amplified spontaneous emission; bandwidth limitations; beat noise; bit error probability; bit error probability simulation; communication system; electrical noise; intersymbol interference; noise contributions; optical free space communication; optical preamplification; optical receiver; receiver; signal-dependent; signal-independent; transmission tunnel; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Error probability; Intersymbol interference; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Sampling methods; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.813562

Filename

813562