Advanced Digital Optical Communications, 2nd Edition

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

Acronyms

Chapter 1   Introduction

1.1      Digital Optical Communications and Transmission Systems: Challenging Issues

1.2      Enabling Technologies

1.2.1      Modulation Formats and Optical Signal Generation

1.2.1.1      Binary Level

1.2.1.2      Binary and Multilevel

1.2.1.3      In-Phase and Quadrature-Phase Channels

1.2.1.4      External Optical Modulation

1.2.2      Advanced Modulation Formats

1.2.3      Incoherent Optical Receivers

1.2.4      DSP-Coherent Optical Receivers

1.2.5      Transmission of Ultra-Short Pulse Sequence

1.2.6      Electronic Equalization

1.2.6.1      Feed-Forward Equalizer

1.2.6.2      Decision Feedback Equalization

1.2.6.3      Minimum Mean Square Error Equalization

1.2.6.4      Placement ...