Probability of error in digital fiber optic systems with inter-symbol interference and signal dependent additive noise

✍ Scribed by Y.C. Jenq

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 634 KB
• Volume: 307
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90033-4

✦ Synopsis

Data transmission uia optical fiber is a new discipline of communication theory. The principal difference from conuentional baseband data transmission, which is characterized by a signal independent additive Gaussian noise, is the existence of a signal dependent shot noise.

This paper presents a technique for estimating the error probability performance of digital systems with inter-symbol interference and signal dependent additive noise. For binary antipodal (*l) systems, the approximate upper bound to the error probability is twice the lower bound. Hence either can be taken as a good approximation to the actual error probability.

7'he technique is then applied to a model of some promising optical data communication systems and a good approximation to the error probability is obtained. Some observations about the effect of various system parameters on the error probability and some numerical examples are presented.