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Non-Gaussian statistics of soliton timing jitter induced by amplifier noise
1Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. kpho@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
Abstract:
Based on first-order perturbation theory of the soliton, the Gordon-Haus timing jitter induced by amplifier noise is found to be non-Gaussian distributed. Both frequency and timing jitter have larger tail probabilities than Gaussian distribution given by the linearized perturbation theory. The timing jitter has a larger discrepancy from Gaussian distribution than does the frequency jitter.
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