A new edge detector for CMI optical fiber transmission withimproved jitter tolerance

An edge detecting scheme for coded mark inversion (CMI) line codes which can reject wrong slot errors is proposed. This scheme looks at data transitions over one-and-a-half symbol durations and makes a binary decision based on the most likely transition pattern. An analysis and measurement results for the bit-error-rate performance of this scheme over an optical fiber link which show improvements in the detector tolerance against symbol timing jitters are presented