Title :
FPGA-based optical transmitters for electronic predistortion and advanced signal format generation
Author :
Killey, Robert I. ; Watts, Philip M. ; Benlachtar, Yannis ; Waegemans, Robert ; Bouziane, Rachid ; Thiruneelakandan, Ramanan ; Milder, Peter A. ; Rangaraj, Deepak ; Cartolano, Anthony ; Koutsoyannis, Robert ; Hoe, James C. ; Puschel, Markus ; Glick, Madel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We describe an optical transmitter, based on field programmable gate arrays, carrying out real-time DSP at 21.4 GSa/s. We implemented electronic predistortion at 10.7 Gb/s, and 8.35 Gb/s optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal generation.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; distortion; field programmable gate arrays; optical modulation; optical transmitters; advanced signal format generation; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; bit rate 8.35 Gbit/s; digital signal processing; electronic predistortion; field programmable gate arrays; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; optical transmitters; Clocks; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; OFDM; Optical arrays; Optical filters; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Predistortion; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343313
