Minimum Receiver Power (sometimes referred to as Receiver Minimum Input Power) is the lowest level of optical power at which the module is guaranteed to operate without exceeding a specified bit error rate (typically BER ≤ 10⁻¹²). A commonly used criterion for digital optical receivers requires the BER to be below 1 x 1 0-9. This value is typically used in optical link budgeting to ensure. In optical communication systems, sensitivity is a measure of how weak an input signal can get before the bit-error ratio (BER) exceeds some specified number. osd shows the BER and Q factor at the data recovery stage for different values of input power. If you change the signal input power, you can calculate Q Factor and BER versus attenuation, in addition to BER versus Q factor (see Figure 1 for Maximum Q factor vs.