Title :
Characterization and monitoring of laser linewidths in coherent optical OFDM systems
Author :
Chen, Xi ; Al Amin, Abdullah ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate monitoring of digitally-generated laser linewidths for 107-Gb/s coherent optical OFDM systems. Unique characteristics of time-domain phase-error variance are exploited to extract laser linewidths after 960-km transmission over SSMF fiber.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; SSMF fiber; bit rate 107 Gbit/s; digitally-generated laser linewidth; optical OFDM system; time-domain phase-error variance; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Monitoring; OFDM; Optical fibers; Phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
