TITLE: 
                        
                            A Novel Method with Martingale Theory for Phase  Noise Analysis in Coherent Optical Communication
                                
                                
                                    AUTHORS: 
                                            Chengle Sui, Qiangmin Wang, Shilin Xiao, Pingqing Li 
                                                    
                                                        KEYWORDS: 
                        Martingale; Brownian Motion; Ito Itegral; Derivation of Moments; Phase Noise 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        JOURNAL NAME: 
                        Optics and Photonics Journal,  
                        Vol.3 No.2B, 
                        July
                                                        19,
                        2013
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        ABSTRACT: 
	Phase noise has a great influence on the performance of coherent optical communication. In this paper, martingale theory is introduced to analyze the phase noise effect for the first time as far as we know. Through Fubini’s Theory and martingale representation theory, we proved that , which denotes the phase noise effect, is a predictable martingale. Then Ito’s formula for solution to stochastic differential equation is utilized for the analysis of phase noise effect. Using our method, a nonrecursive formula for the moments of phase noise is derived and signal-noise-ratio (SNR) degradation in coherent optical OFDM due to phase noise is calculated with our method.