TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF DUOBINARY MULTILEVEL PULSE-AMPLITUDE-MODULATED OPTICAL SIGNALS USING FINITE-STATE MACHIEN-BASED ENCODER

摘要

Methods an apparatus to transmit and receive information bits encoded in duobinary, multilevel pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) optical signals are described. The transmitted optical signal has a narrow optical spectrum and a low symbol rate. Information bits are encoded in a M-ary PAM symbol sequence, where M > 2. The P AM symbol sequence is input to a finite-state machine, which yields an encoded sequence that changes sign between two symbol intervals when the encoded sequence takes on a nominally zero value during an odd number of intervening symbol intervals. The encoded sequence is lowpass filtered and modulated onto an optical electric field. The receiver (20) processes a received optical electric field to obtain an electrical signal proportional to the received optical intensity, and performs M-ary symbol-by-symbol decisions to recover the transmitted information bits, without potential error propagation.