Impact of Laser Diode Performance on Data Rate Capability of PPM Optical Communication
- 1 October 1985
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 1, 115-121
- https://doi.org/10.1109/milcom.1985.4794949
Abstract
A model is developed for an APD receiver which is shown to have dominant noise contributions from signal-dependent excess noise and thermal noise at high data rate (HDR). For the HDR APD receiver with pulse position modulation (PPM), the data rate (RD) can be written RD-αρa where α is the modulation and coding efficiency and ρa is the average photon rate. It is shown that for an average-power-limited source the data rate capability is optimized by maximizing the coding efficiency α, but for a peak-power-limited source both α and ρa influence the data rate capability. Thus the optimum choice of PPM word size (M) is dependent on the source peak-to-average power ratio. Several commercially available single transverse-mode laser diodes were found to have peak-to-average power ratios of about 8-16. Finally, a method of coding for MY was devised to allow PPM to modulate the laser diode at M-8-16 while simultaneously allowing a Reed-Solomon (N,K) error correcting code to operate with high coding gain.Keywords
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