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arxiv: 1711.01888 · v1 · pith:SD22JCHJnew · submitted 2017-11-06 · 💻 cs.IT · math.IT· physics.optics

Information capacity of direct detection optical transmission systems

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We show that the spectral efficiency of a direct detection transmission system is at most 1 bit/s/Hz less than the spectral efficiency of a system employing coherent detection with the same modulation format. Correspondingly, the capacity per complex degree of freedom in systems using direct detection is lower by at most 1 bit.

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