Evaluating the performance improvement of differential phase-shift keying signals by amplitude regeneration and phase-noise suppression

Chia-Chien Wei, Jason Chen, Yung Jui Chen
2008 Optics Letters  
Theoretical bit error rates of the differential phase-shift keying format with various regeneration schemes is presented. A comparison with ideal regeneration reveals that averaging the phase noise of adjacent bits is found to eliminate most penalties that are induced by phase noise.
doi:10.1364/ol.33.001090 pmid:18483522 fatcat:vy7m4z35bbawxj3sevqyngmwla