Optimum configuration for discrete multi-tone transmission over polymer optical fiber

Author

Peng, Linning ; Haese, Sylvain ; Hélard, Maryline

Author_Institution

Inst. d´´Electron. et des Telecommun. de Rennes (IETR), Univ. Eur. de Bretagne, Rennes, France

fYear

2012

fDate

23-25 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

High bit rate transmission over polymer optical fiber (POF) attracts great interests recently. This paper investigates the discrete multi-tone (DMT) transmission over 50-meter step-index POF (SI-POF) based on an experimental system. The system adopts a digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) and processes the data off-line, which is the most common solution in the POF researches. We first study the problem of effective number of bits (ENOB) in the DSO´s analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Then we investigate the optimum configuration of the DMT transmission in terms of subcarrier number selection, clipping and ADC quantization effect mitigation. The proposed method of selecting optimum configuration can be easily applied to any other DMT over POF systems.

Keywords

digital storage oscilloscopes; optical polymers; radio-over-fibre; analog-to-digital converter; digital storage oscilloscope; discrete multitone transmission over polymer optical fiber; effective number of bits; optimum configuration; quantization effect mitigation; step-index POF; Modulation; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Quantization; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ICT), 2012 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jounieh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0745-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0746-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTEL.2012.6221284

Filename

6221284