Power penalty due to decision-time jitter in optical communication systems

24 April 1986

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 22 (9) , 450-451
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19860306

Abstract

The effect of decision-time jitter on the performance of optical communication systems is evaluated theoretically. The jitter-induced noise and the associated power penalty are calculated for the uniform and Gaussian distributions of the time jitter. The results suggest that the time jitter should be ≲(4B)⁻¹ to keep the power penalty below 1 dB for a light-wave system operating at a bit rate B.

Keywords

INFORMATION THEORY
LIGHT-WAVE SYSTEM
DECISION-TIME JITTER
JITTER-INDUCED NOISE
GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS
BIT RATE
PERFORMANCE
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
TIME JITTER
POWER PENALTY

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