• DocumentCode
    2537249
  • Title

    Transmission channel rate for coherent optical OFDM - is the sky the limit?

  • Author

    Shieh, William ; Ma, Yiran ; Yang, Qi ; Chen, Simin ; Tang, Yan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4-8 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    721
  • Lastpage
    722
  • Abstract
    We show that the channel rate of CO-OFDM systems can scale well beyond multi-Tb/s, only bounded by the available optical amplifier bandwidth. However, the benefit of high-spectral efficiency is diminished at these ultra-high channel rates.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; optical communication; optical fibre amplifiers; coherent optical OFDM systems; optical amplifier; transmission channel rate; Bandwidth; Ethernet networks; OFDM; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Signal generators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Belek-Antalya
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3680-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343366
  • Filename
    5343366