BER Performance of Photon Counting PPM vs. DPSK for Satellite Communications [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06161


Expressions for the BER of M-ary PPM & biphase DPSK modulations in the presence of noise are derived using analytical, statistical methods. The PPM expression is verified via Poisson statistics based simulation. BER expressions are then applied to a representative set of receiving telescope & sky spectral radiance parameters in order to assess performance of PPM & DPSK relative to one another. Finally, efficiency & additional considerations are discussed.

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D. Paulson
Wed, 14 Sep 22
83/90

Comments: Final report for PhD student independent study. Contains novel derivations on uncoded bit error rate for pulse position modulation (PPM) on optical links