Information Capacity of Polarization-Modulated and Directly Detected Optical Systems Dominated by Amplified Spontaneous Emission Noise

We derive the closed-form information capacity of optically amplified polarization modulation with direct detection and show that it exceeds a tight lower bound for the capacity of three parallel intensity modulated direct detection systems.

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Published inJournal of lightwave technology Vol. 35; no. 14; pp. 2797 - 2802
Main Authors Khodakarami, Hamid, Di Che, Shieh, William
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 15.07.2017
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Amplified spontaneous emission
capacity
channel matrix
Chi distribution
direct detection
Emission
entropy
Exact solutions
exponential distribution
Gaussian distribution
intensity modulation
Jones space
Mathematical analysis
Modulation
mutual information
Noise prediction
optical amplifier
Optical amplifiers
Optical fibers
Optical noise
Optical polarization
Optical receivers
Polarization
Polarization modulation
receiver channel knowledge
Spontaneous emission
Stokes vector
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ISSN0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI10.1109/JLT.2017.2680323

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Summary:We derive the closed-form information capacity of optically amplified polarization modulation with direct detection and show that it exceeds a tight lower bound for the capacity of three parallel intensity modulated direct detection systems.
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ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2017.2680323