Title :
Study of Nonlinearity and Dynamic Range of Coherent Optical OFDM Receivers
Author :
Yan Tang ; Wei Chen ; Shieh, William
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We study through theoretical analysis and simulate the nonlinearity and dynamic range for both balanced and single-ended receiver. The 0.5-dB Q-penalty dynamic range for single-ended receiver is 12 dB at laser RIN of -160 dBc/Hz
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; Q-factor; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; OFDM; Q-penalty; RIN; dynamic range; nonlinearity; optical receivers; Baseband; Dynamic range; OFDM modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; RF signals; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528221
