Optical communications through a dispersive medium: a performance bound for photocounting
Abstract
This paper considers the effects of pulse stretching and background radiation on a binary optical communication system with a photon counting detector. An idealized receiver processor is developed which provides a lower bound on the error probability that can be achieved by any realizable processor. A very simple approximation to the error probability is shown to be valid for intersymbol interference over more than about five-bit intervals.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- February 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.20.000573
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApOpt..20..573C
- Keywords:
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- Error Analysis;
- Intersymbolic Interference;
- Light Transmission;
- Optical Communication;
- Probability Theory;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Binary Data;
- Counting Circuits;
- Data Transmission;
- Radiation Detectors;
- Signal Processing;
- Transmission Efficiency;
- Communications and Radar;
- OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS;
- DISPERSION;
- PHOTON COUNTING