This paper presents a brief review of infrared communications systems, modulation techniques and in particular, a digital pulse modulation scheme known as digital pulse interval modulation (DPIM) for infrared (IR) communication systems employing intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD). DPIM code characteristics, power spectral density and error probability in terms of the packet erro...

Simplicity, transmission rate, and bit error rate (BER) performance are three major concerns for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. The main advantage of existing pulse-position modulation (PPM) schemes is simplicity, but their BER performance is poorer than that of an on-off-keying (OOK) modulation scheme, and their transmission rate is lower than that of an OOK scheme. In this research project, I ...

We investigate through numerical studies and experiments the performance of a large scale, silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit for multi-format regeneration and wavelength-conversion. The circuit encompasses a monolithically integrated array of four SOAs inside two parallel Mach-Zehnder structures, four delay interferometers and a large number of silica waveguides and couplers. Exploi...

In this paper, we are evaluating the performances of energy detector receiver with on-off-keying (OOK) and pulse position modulation (PPM) in ultra wideband (UWB) communications. Energy detector (ED) receivers are considered as a lowcomplexity and low-power consumption option for the more complex coherent receivers. Obviously, the tradeoff for low complexity is degraded detection performance. A...

This paper examines the effect of baseline wander on systems employing digital pulse interval modulation (DPIM). Computer simulation results are presented, and comparisons are made with onoff keying (OOK) and pulse position modulation (PPM). It is shown that, since the power spectral density of DPIM does not go to zero at DC, DPIM is more susceptible to the effects of baseline wander than PPM, ...

This effort focuses on the comparison of On Off Keying (OOK) to incoherent 4-ary Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK). We show that a 0.4 bits/s/Hz improvement in spectral efficiency is obtained by utilising 4-ary ASK. We determined the filter steepness required to achieve this maximum obtainable spectral efficiency. The comparison of OOK and 4-ary ASK in terms of dispersion tolerance for Non-Return-to...