Abstract
In this letter, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that is typically employed in current state-of-the-art high bit rate lightwave communication systems experiments is characterized for a broad range of input powers in order to develop a reliable model for simulation purposes. We show that the receiver performance is dominated by the digitizer noise, especially at low powers. This is particularly important for burst-mode receivers that have to cope with a large variation in input power. Simulation results show a good agreement with experimentally received intensity modulated data at 10.7 Gb/s with powers ranging from <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">$-$</tex> </formula> 6 to <formula formulatype="inline" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex Notation="TeX">$-$</tex> </formula> 18 dBm.
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