Title :
A comparative study of nonlinear companding schemes for CO-OFDM transmissions
Author :
Azou, Stephane ; Bejan, Serban ; Morel, P. ; Sharaiha, A.
Author_Institution :
IRT b<;>com, Brest, France
Abstract :
Wang´s nonlinear companding scheme is investigated here for the first time for CO-OFDM transmissions. As a result of an optimal predistortion function design, we demonstrate a 3 dB BER advantage for a system employing a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA).
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; compandors; error statistics; optical communication; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; BER; CO-OFDM transmissions; SOA system; Wang nonlinear companding scheme; optimal predistortion function design; semiconductor optical amplifier; Decision support systems; CO-OFDM; Nonlinear predistortion; Optical fiber communications; PAPR reduction; Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987102
