NOISE PERFORMANCE OF A WHITE LIGHT OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR: PART II - TEMPORALLY PARTIAL COHERENT ILLUMINATION.

Changming Ma, Songlin Zhuang

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Abstract

The effect of temporally partial coherent light on noise performance of a whitelight optical signal processor is presented. The output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is used as a means of measuring noise performance of the proposed whitelight processing system. The noise sources considered are the grain-noise and phase-noise at any plane in the system. The result shows that the set-up noise can be restrained and the output SNR can be improved considerably by using broad band temporally partial coherent illumination.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)385-393
Number of pages9
JournalGuangxue Xuebao/Acta Optica Sinica
Volume7
Issue number5
StatePublished - May 1987

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