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SNR

English translation: signal-to-noise ratio

22:08 Nov 11, 2020
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / Оптическая физика/Optical physics
English term or phrase: SNR
But this is no longer valid when using a quadrature receiver, where the optical power is equally split between the in-phase and quadrature branches and the SNR degrades by 3 dB in each branch for shot-noise limited detection, leading to a performance equivalent to that of amplifier noise limited detection.
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Проститова Мирослава
Russian Federation
Selected answer:signal-to-noise ratio
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would be my guess.
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3 +5signal-to-noise ratio
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snr
signal-to-noise ratio


Explanation:
would be my guess.

philgoddard
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agree  John Druce: You beat me to it and answered this as I was typing my explanation. Better than a guess, I'm sure this is it!
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  -> I was just being modest :-) Thanks.
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snr
Signal-to-noise Ratio


Explanation:
I've seen this acronym a fair bit, and it's quite a common term.

Signal-to-noise ratio is basically telling you how strong the peak or whatever you're measuring is compared to the background noise. The text is saying that when using this quadrature receiver, the signal-to-noise ratio degrades, i.e. the measurement becomes more noisy as the level of the signal being measured gets weaker and so isn't as easy to discern from the background.

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Note added at 19 mins (2020-11-11 22:27:59 GMT)
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Phil got there first, but I figure I'll leave this for the short explanation of what it means.

John Druce
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