Experimental Demonstration of Real-Time Optical OFDM Transmission at 7.5 Gb/s Over 25-km SSMF Using a 1-GHz RSOA

Author

Giddings, R.P. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Jin, X.Q. ; Wei, J.L. ; Tang, J.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Bangor Univ., Bangor, UK

Volume

22

Issue

11

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

745

Lastpage

747

Abstract

The 7.5-Gb/s real-time end-to-end optical orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (OOFDM) transceivers incorporating variable power loading on each individual subcarrier are demonstrated experimentally using a live-optimized reflective semiconductor optical amplifier intensity modulator having a modulation bandwidth as narrow as 1 GHz. Real-time OOFDM signal transmission at 7.5 Gb/s over 25-km standard single-mode fiber is achieved across the C-band in simple intensity modulation and direct detection systems without in-line optical amplification and dispersion compensation.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; frequency division multiplexing; optical receivers; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transceivers; bit rate 7.5 Gbit/s; distance 25 km; frequency 1 GHz; optical amplification; optical orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing transceivers; real-time optical OFDM transmission; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; standard single-mode fiber; Optical fiber communication; optical modulation; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2010.2045493

Filename

5432960