PROPOSED RECEIVER STRUCTURE FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS THAT EMPLOY HETERODYNE DETECTION AND A SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AS A LOCAL OSCILLATOR. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Coherent heterodyne detection in optical communication is degraded by phase instabilities present when a semiconductor laser is used as a local oscillator. Postdetection processing that accounts for these instabilities is suggested, based on a diffusion-process model for oscillator instabilities and a maximum-likelihood sequence-estimator of information symbols modulating the received light.

published proceedings

  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

author list (cited authors)

  • Georghiades, C., & Snyder, D. L.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Georghiades, C||Snyder, DL

publication date

  • April 1985