Receiver Sensitivity

Receiver Sensitivity is the minimum acceptable value of received power needed to achieve an acceptable BER or performance. It takes into account power penalties caused by use of a transmitter with worst-case values of extinction ratio, jitter, pulse rise times and fall times, optical return loss, receiver connector degradations, and measurement tolerances.

The receiver sensitivity does not include power penalties associated with dispersion, or back reflections from the optical path; these effects are specified separately in the allocation of maximum optical path penalty. Sensitivity usually takes into account worst-case operating and end-of-life (EOL) conditions.

Related Knowledge:

• Jitter
• BER and BERT
• Extinction Ratio
• Full-Duplex Communication

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