Accurate Calculation of Eye Diagrams and Error Rates in Long-Haul Transmission Systems

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Holzlöhner, R., C. R. Menyuk, V. S. Grigoryan, and W. L. Kath. "Accurate Calculation of Eye Diagrams and Error Rates in Long-Haul Transmission Systems" In Optical Fiber Communication Conference and International Conference on Quantum Information (2001), Paper MF3, MF3. Optica Publishing Group, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2001.MF3.

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Abstract

We found the distribution of phase and timing jitter in a DMS system to be Gaussian-distributed. After their removal, the residual noise Fourier components obey a multivariate-Gaussian distribution, allowing us to accurately calculate eye diagrams and error rates.