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
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