Receiver noise modeling in presence of optical amplification
- 1 January 2001
- proceedings article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
Abstract
The Gaussian approximation with exact moments is shown to yield the most reliable bit error probability estimates for practically relevant receivers, outshining more sophisticated approximations (e.g. non-central chi-square), often thought of as being more precise.Keywords
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