摘要 |
According to the invention, various noise currents are added to the electrical data signal after the opto-electric conversion of an optical data signal, and an optimum decision threshold for the electrical data signal equipped with this noise current is determined for each noise current. Values for a median signal current and for a median noise current of the amplified spontaneous emission are subsequently determined from the value pairs of the optimum decision threshold and the added noise current in accordance with a computation rule that is based on a noise model, and the optimum signal-to-noise ratio is calculated from their quotient. The method may also be advantageously implemented by means of simple expansions of common receiver devices.
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