Noise statistics of fiber optical parametric amplifiers

Per Kylemark; Magnus Karlsson; Thomas Torounidis; Peter A. Andrekson

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006),
paper OWT5

Noise statistics of fiber optical parametric amplifiers

Per Kylemark, Magnus Karlsson, Thomas Torounidis, and Peter A. Andrekson

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2006

Anaheim, California United States
5–10 March 2006
ISBN: 1-55752-802-0

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P. Kylemark, M. Karlsson, T. Torounidis, and P. A. Andrekson, "Noise statistics of fiber optical parametric amplifiers," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2006), paper OWT5.

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Abstract

We show both theoretically and experimentally that the probability density function of a signal amplified by parametric amplifiers with pump excess noise is non-Gaussian and asymmetric. This impacts the relationship between the noise figure and the bit-error rate.

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