@article{scholars12878,
       publisher = {Springer},
         journal = {Photonic Network Communications},
           pages = {49--57},
            year = {2020},
           title = {Theoretical bounds for the bit error rate for SAC OCDMA balanced detectors with multiple photodiodes},
          volume = {40},
            note = {cited By 1},
          number = {1},
             doi = {10.1007/s11107-020-00887-8},
            issn = {1387974X},
          author = {Alhassan, A. M. and Badruddin, N. and Saad, N. M. and Aljunid, S. A.},
        keywords = {Computer software; Intelligent systems; Monte Carlo methods; Optical communication; Photodiodes, Balanced detector; Intensity noise; Lower and upper bounds; Photodiode structures; Software simulation; Spectral amplitude coding; Split signals; Theoretical bounds, Bit error rate},
             url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085017594&doi=10.1007\%2fs11107-020-00887-8&partnerID=40&md5=f515db887158c02ba33dc3f572c57d94},
        abstract = {In this paper, we derive the theoretical lower and upper bounds for bit error rate (BER) for spectral amplitude coding OCDMA balanced detector (BD) employing multiple photodiodes. The purpose of this study is to find the maximum performance improvement that can be achieved when a multi-photodiode structure is used to reduce the intensity noise. Results show that when the split signals are independent, the lower bound for the BER is much lower than it is for the conventional BD. To further validate our study, Monte Carlo simulation and software simulation using Optisystem were performed. {\^A}{\copyright} 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.}
}