Optical Communication Theory and Techniques

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Information and Communication Theory for Optical Communications

   1. Solving the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

      • Enrico Forestieri, Marco Secondini

      Pages 3-11

   2. Modulation and Detection Techniques for DWDW Systems

      • Joseph M. Kahn, Keang-Po Ho

      Pages 13-20

   3. Best Optical Filtering for Duobinary Transmission

      • G. Bosco, A. Carena, V. Curri, P. Poggiolini

      Pages 21-28

   4. Theoretical Limits for the Dispersion Limited Optical Channel

      • Roberto Gaudino

      Pages 29-36

   5. Capacity Bounds for Mimo Poisson Channels with Inter-symbol interference

      • Alfonso Martinez

      Pages 37-44

   6. QSpace Project: Quantum Cryptography in Space

      • Cesare Barbieri, Gianfranco Cariolaro, Tommaso Occhipinti, Claudio Pernechele, Fabrizio Tamburini, Paolo Villoresi

      Pages 45-52

   7. Quantum-aided Classical Cryptography with a Moving Target

      • Fabrizio Tamburini, Sante Andreoli, Tommaso Occhipinti

      Pages 53-59

3. Coding Theory and Techniques

   1. Channel Coding for Optical Communications

      • Sergio Benedetto, Gabriella Bosco

      Pages 63-78

   2. Soft Decoding in Optical Systems: Turbo Product Codes vs. LDPC Codes

      • Gabriella Bosco

      Pages 79-86

   3. Iterative Decoding and Error Code Correction Method in Holographic Data Storage

      • Attila Sütó, Emóke Lórinez

      Pages 87-94

   4. Performance of Optical Time-spread CDMA/PPM with Multiple Access and Multipath Interference

      • B. Zeidler, G. C. Papen, L. Milstein

      Pages 95-102

   5. Performance Analysis and Comparison of Trellis-coded and Turbo-coded Optical CDMA Systems

      • M. Kulkarni, P. Purohit, N. Kannan

      Pages 103-111

4. Characterizing, Measuring, and Calculating Performance in Optical Fiber Communication Systems

   1. A Methodology for Calculating Performance in an Optical Fiber Communications System

      • C. R. Menyuk, B. S. Marks, J. Zweck

      Pages 113-120

   2. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Technique for Outage Probability Evaluation in PMD-compensated Systems

      • Marco Secondini, Enrico Forestieri, Giancarlo Prati

      Pages 121-128

   3. A Parametric Gain Approach to Performance Evaluation of DPSK/DQPSK Systems with Nonlinear Phase Noise

      • P. Serena, A. Orlandini, A. Bononi

      Pages 129-136

   4. Characterization of Intrachannel Nonlinear Distortion in Ultra-high Bit-rate Transmission Systems

      • Robert I. Killey, Vitaly Mikhailov, Shamil Appathurai, Polina Bayvel

      Pages 137-150

   5. Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Interferometric Crosstalk Noise Incorporating Chirp Effect in Directly Modulated Systems

      • Efraim Buimovich-Rotem, Dan Sadot

      Pages 151-156

   6. On the Impact of MPI in All-Raman Dispersion-compensated IMDD and DPSK Links

      • Stefan Tenenbaum, Pierluigi Poggiolini

      Pages 157-165

5. Modulation Formats and Detection

   1. Modulation Formats for Optical Fiber Transmission

      • Klaus Petermann

      Pages 167-172

Since the advent of optical communications, a greattechnological effort has been devoted to the exploitation of the huge bandwidth of optical fibers. Sta- ing from a few Mb/s single channel systems, a fast and constant technological development has led to the actual 10 Gb/s per channel dense wavelength - vision multiplexing (DWDM) systems, with dozens of channels on a single fiber. Transmitters and receivers are now ready for 40 Gb/s, whereas hundreds of channels can be simultaneously amplified by optical amplifiers. Nevertheless, despite such a pace in technological progress, optical c- munications are still in a primitive stage if compared, for instance, to radio communications: the widely spread on-off keying (OOK) modulation format is equivalent to the rough amplitude modulation (AM) format, whereas the DWDM technique is nothing more than the optical version of the frequency - vision multiplexing (FDM) technique. Moreover, adaptive equalization, ch- nel coding or maximum likelihood detection are still considered something “exotic” in the optical world. This is mainly due to the favourable char- teristics of the fiber optic channel (large bandwidth, low attenuation, channel stability, ...), which so far allowed us to use very simple transmission and detection techniques.

• Modulation
• Phase
• Symbol
• Transmission
• Trellis-Code
• Turbo-Code
• code
• coding theory
• communication
• communication system
• communication systems
• information
• interference
• online
• optical communication

From the reviews:

"This book is the result of the 2004 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications … . Unlike typical proceedings document, however, the editor has expended considerable effort to bring a uniform editorial style to the book. Practitioners will appreciate that." (Wes Munsil, Computing Reviews, April, 2005)

• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

  Enrico Forestieri

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