Eye diagrams are crucial for evaluating the performance of optical receivers. They allow engineers to: Identify signal distortions such as jitter and noise. Determine the maximum data rate the system can support without errors. In an optical transmission system, one essential parameter in determining the system power budget is the optical receiver sensitivity, which is defined as the minimum average optical power for a given bit error rate (BER). To make a good optical receiver design, it is critical to understand the. In our concluding chapter we will combine our photodetector and receiver-noise modeling techniques with front-end and demodulator designs to construct complete receiver structures. Ultimately, the noise influence.