Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Intensity-Modulation and Direct-Detection Optical Fast-OFDM Over MMF-Links

Author

Giacoumidis, E. ; Ibrahim, S.K. ; Zhao, J. ; Tang, J.M. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Tomkos, I.

Author_Institution

High-Speed Networks & Opt. Commun. (NOC) Group, Athens Inf. Technol. (AIT) Center, Athens, Greece

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

54

Abstract

We demonstrate the first experimental implementation of a 3.9-Gb/s differential binary phase-shift keying (DBPSK)-based double sideband (DSB) optical fast orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (FOFDM) system with a reduced subcarrier spacing equal to half the symbol rate over 300 m of multimode fiber (MMF) using intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM/DD). The required received optical power at a bit-error rate (BER) of 10^-3 was measured to be ~-14.2 dBm with a receiver sensitivity penalty of only ~0.2 dB when compared to the back-to-back case. Experimental results agree very well with the theoretical predictions.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; error statistics; intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical receivers; phase shift keying; BER; DBPSK; DSB; FOFDM system; back-to-back case; bit-error rate; differential binary phase-shift keying; direct-detection optical fast-OFDM over MMF-links; double sideband; intensity-modulation; multimode fiber; optical fast orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing system; optical power; receiver sensitivity penalty; reduced subcarrier spacing; Bit error rate; OFDM; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Fiber-optics communications; modulation; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2172596

Filename

6054002