Duty-cycle-division-multiplexing: bit error rate estimation and performance evaluation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

An improved estimation of bit-error-rate (BER) for electrically multiplexed duty-cycle division multiplexing (E-DCDM), which is based on the probability of error, is presented. Performance of 3 x 10 Gbit/s E-DCDM is investigated in terms of optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) and dispersion tolerance. This technique requires 29.4 dB OSNR and can tolerate +/- 96 ps/nm chromatic dispersion for the worst user.

Keywords

Optical communication, multiplexing, duty-cycle, probability of error, optical modulator, transmission.

Divisions

fac_eng

Publication Title

Optical Review

Volume

16

Issue

4

Publisher

Optical Review

Additional Information

478JT Times Cited:1 Cited References Count:12

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