Seminar on

Application of probability theory in an optical communication system

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Tabassum unnisa 1st sem ,Mtech, Digital communication.

Block diagram of optical communication system

Data input{0,1}
Photo detector (electrons counter)

{0,1}
Decision device

Laser or LED

PMF of Poisson random variable

K=1,2,3 .

K=1,2,3 .

Posterior probability

Using theorem of total probability

The probabilities of 0 and 1 sent are taken to be equal i,e 1/2

So that

Therefore ,applying Baye s theorem

And..for 1

Since the dinominator of both posterior probabilities are same,so we decide that 1 was sent if..

Or

But sometimes receiver can make wrong decision i,e 0 bit was sent taken as 1 or vice versa.

Therefore probability of making an error is given by

Let x0 be the threshold with which we campare X to dicide which data bit was sent.d

Likewise,

Hence probability of erroe of our optical communication system is given by