• DocumentCode
    1793814
  • Title

    Blind symbol synchronisation in direct-detection optical OFDM using virtual subcarriers

  • Author

    Bouziane, Rachid ; Milder, Peter A. ; Kilmurray, Sean ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Pachnicke, Stephan ; Bayvel, Polina ; Killey, Robert I.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London (UCL), London, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate the performance of a novel blind symbol synchronisation technique using a 30.65Gb/s real-time 16-QAM OFDM transmitter with direct detection. The proposed scheme exhibits low complexity and does not have any bandwidth overhead.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; real-time systems; synchronisation; bit rate 30.65 Gbit/s; blind symbol synchronisation; direct-detection optical OFDM; real-time 16-QAM OFDM transmitter; virtual subcarriers; Digital signal processing; High-speed optical techniques; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Synchronization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th3K.5
  • Filename
    6886814