SOME STATISTICAL REMARKS ON THE DERIVATION OF BER IN AMPLIFIED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS

Authors
ABRAMOVICH F BAYVEL P
Citation
F. Abramovich et P. Bayvel, SOME STATISTICAL REMARKS ON THE DERIVATION OF BER IN AMPLIFIED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION-SYSTEMS, IEEE transactions on communications, 45(9), 1997, pp. 1032-1034
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Telecommunications,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00906778
Volume
45
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1032 - 1034
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-6778(1997)45:9<1032:SSROTD>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We consider the signal detection problem in amplified optical transmis sion systems as a statistical hypothesis testing procedure, and we sho w that the detected signal has a well-known chi-squared distribution. In particular, this approach considerably simplifies the derivation of bit-error rate (EER). Finally, we discuss the accuracy of the Gaussia n approximations to the exact distributions of the signal.