Title :
Investigation of 11.1Gbit/s direct-detection OFDM QAM-16 transmission over 1600km of uncompensated fiber
Author :
Benlachtar, Y. ; Killey, R.I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron.&Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrated 11.1 Gb/s QAM-16 direct-detection OFDM transmission over 1600 km of uncompensated standard fiber using 0-5.55 GHz band. We also investigated the effect of self-phase modulation and observed penalties comparable to systems using QPSK-OFDM.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; OFDM; QAM-16 transmission; QPSK; optical communications; self-phase modulation; uncompensated fiber; Digital signal processing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; OFDM modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; (060.4080) Modulation; (060.4510) Optical Communications;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
