Optical OFDM for ultra-high capacity long-haul transmission applications

Author

Jansen, Sander Lars ; Lobato, Adriana ; Adhikari, Susmita ; Inan, Beril ; van den Borne, Dirk

Author_Institution

Nokia Siemens Network, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Optical OFDM is a promising modulation format for next generation fiber-optic transmission systems. The main challenges for optical OFDM are its sensitivity to laser phase noise and high PAPR. In this paper the phase noise tolerance is investigated for the two main phase noise compensation algorithms: carrier phase estimation (CPE) and RF-pilot (RFP) compensation. Furthermore, the nonlinear tolerance of OFDM is addressed for SSMF and LEAF, where it is shown that using RFP-based phase noise compensation a nonlinear improvement of up to 1 dB can be obtained.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; phase noise; RF-pilot compensation; carrier phase estimation; modulation format; next generation fiber-optic transmission systems; phase noise compensation; pptical OFDM; ultra-high capacity long-haul transmission; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Phase noise; Wavelength division multiplexing; digital transmission systems; modulation formats; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2011 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9596-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-901882-42-5

Type

conf

Filename

5753414