On the bit error rate of optical transmission systems corrupted by bivariate additive white Gaussian noise

Petros Ramantanis (1) , Camille Delezoide (1) , Philippe Jennevé (1, 2) , Patricia Layec (1) , Yann Frignac (3, 4, 5) , René-Jean Essiambre (6) , Sébastien Bigo (1)

1 Nokia Bell Labs [Paris-Saclay]
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Manolia
3 TIPIC-SAMOVAR - Traitement de l'Information Pour Images et Communications
4 TSP - EPH - Département Electronique et Physique
5 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6 Nokia Bell labs [Holmdel] (Nokia)

We derive in an integral form the BER for QPSK constellations corrupted by elliptic AWGN and discuss its properties compared to circular AWGN. Then we confront our theory with transmission experiments in configurations with elliptic noise caused by strong nonlinearity

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Petros Ramantanis, Camille Delezoide, Philippe Jennevé, Patricia Layec, Yann Frignac, et al.. On the bit error rate of optical transmission systems corrupted by bivariate additive white Gaussian noise. ECOC 2017: 43rd European Conference on Optical Communication, Sep 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. pp.1-3, ⟨10.1109/ECOC.2017.8346079⟩. ⟨hal-01726604⟩