title: Photon statistics of amplified spontaneous emission noise in a 10-Gbit/s optically preamplified direct-detection receiver.
abstract: We verify experimentally, over a dynamic range of 55 dB in the probability distribution, that the amplified spontaneous emission noise of the 0's from an optically preamplified receiver is degenerate Bose-Einstein distributed. Using the noise parameters extracted from the experiment, we are able to predict the sensitivity of a 10-Gbit/s direct-detection receiver.
authors: W S
authors: WS
authors: Wong
authors: H A
authors: HA
authors: Haus
authors: L A
authors: LA
authors: Jiang
authors: P B
authors: PB
authors: Hansen
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Margalit