Analysis of Direct Detection Lightwave Systems with Optical Amplifiers

Abstract

We provide a detailed analysis of direct detection lightwave systems employing an optical preamplifier at the receiver and derive the closed form expression for the bit error probability of WDM systems employing on-off keying (OOK) as modulation format. In our analysis, we consider various cases in which the receiver model uses either a finite-time integrator or Fabry-Perot filter operating in a single channel or multi-channel environment. We take into account the optical amplifier noise, the postdetection receiver noise, the shot noise, and the effect of the nonzero laser linewidth. FSR, responsivity, ACI, ISI.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA284077

Entities

People

  • Enver Kucukerman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Communication Systems
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Fiber-Optic Communications
  • Gaussian Noise
  • High Gain
  • Integrators
  • Low Noise Amplifiers
  • Optical Communications
  • Photodetectors
  • Preamplifiers
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Random Variables
  • Shot Noise

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy