Optical Communications: A Compendium of Signal Formats, Receiver Architectures, Analysis Mathematics, and Performance Characteristics

摘要

There are a number of options for modulation formats in optical fiber and free-space lasercom systems. There are a seemingly even greater number of options for receiver architectures. Although most of these possibilities and combinations have been analyzed in journal publications and textbooks, there does not seem to be a single place to look for all relevant results concerning these options. Furthermore, comparisons of the options do not seem to have been methodically tabulated. In this work, then, we will present, describe, analyze, and compare the theoretical communications performance metrics of the most common optical modulation formats paired with the basic classes of receiver types.