Optical communication receiver design
This Tutorial Text provides an overview of design principles for receivers used in optical communication systems, intended for practicing engineers. The author reviews technologies used to construct optical links and illustrates the flow of system performance specifications into receiver requirements. Photodetector fundamentals, associated statistics, characteristics and performance issues are presented, together with a tutorial on noise analysis and the specific techniques needed to model opti…
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- Full title :Optical communication receiver design / Stephen B. Alexander.
Summary
This Tutorial Text provides an overview of design principles for receivers used in optical communication systems, intended for practicing engineers. The author reviews technologies used to construct optical links and illustrates the flow of system performance specifications into receiver requirements. Photodetector fundamentals, associated statistics, characteristics and performance issues are presented, together with a tutorial on noise analysis and the specific techniques needed to model optical receivers.
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- Publication Date:1997.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SPIE
- Place of Publication:Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA)
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1997.
Notes
"SPIE digital library."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 314 pages) : : illustrations, digital file.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780819480477, 0819480479
- DOI:10.1117/3.219402
- oclc:on1309408828
- LC Classification:TK5103.59
Table of Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- 1. Optical communications -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Fiber-optic systems. 1.2.1. Optical fiber; 1.2.2. Fiber coupling considerations -- 1.3. Free-space systems -- 1.3.1. Choice of laser technology -- 1.3.2. Spatial pointing and tracking considerations -- 1.4. References -- 2. System performance -- 2.1. Analog and digital optical communications -- 2.2. The link budget. 2.2.1. Link budget for the fiber-optic channel; 2.2.2. Link budget for the free-space channel -- 2.3. Specifying an analog receiver's performance -- 2.4. Specifying a digital receiver's performance -- 2.5. The receiver sensitivity budget -- 2.6. References.
3. Photodetection -- 3.1. The detection of optical signals -- 3.2. Photon counting -- 3.3. Modeling photodetection -- 3.4. Photocurrent statistics -- 3.5. Ideal direct detection -- 3.6. Ideal coherent detection -- 3.7. References -- 4. Photodetectors -- 4.1. Photomultipliers -- 4.2. Photoconductors -- 4.3. The p-n photodiode -- 4.4. Metal-semiconductor photodiodes -- 4.5. The p-i-n photodiode -- 4.6. The avalanche photodiode -- 4.7. Small signal equivalent circuit model for a photodetector -- 4.8. References -- 5. Recei…
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