title: Evaluating the performance improvement of differential phase-shift keying signals by amplitude regeneration and phase-noise suppression.
abstract: Theoretical bit error rates of the differential phase-shift keying format with various regeneration schemes is presented. A comparison with ideal regeneration reveals that averaging the phase noise of adjacent bits is found to eliminate most penalties that are induced by phase noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Photonics, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan 300. wei5@umbc.edu
authors.forename: Chia-Chien
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yung Jui
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Chen