Bandwidth Limitations on Noiseless Optical Channel Capacity
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Vol. 30 (5) , 1262-1264
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tcom.1982.1095577
Abstract
Even in noiseless optical channels one must take into account the fact that the time resolution available is finite. An optimization scheme under the constraint of a given information rate (in nats/second) and minimum time-slot resolution is presented. It is shown that system efficiencies in excess of tens of nats/phonon will be extremely difficult to achieve due to fundamental time resolution limitations.Keywords
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