• DocumentCode
    511606
  • Title

    21.4 GS/s real-time DSP-based optical OFDM signal generation and transmission over 1600 km of uncompensated fibre

  • Author

    Benlachtar, Yannis ; Watts, Philip M. ; Bouziane, Rachid ; Milder, Peter ; Koutsoyannis, Robert ; Hoe, James C. ; Püschel, Markus ; Glick, Madeleine ; Killey, Robert I.

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, UK
  • Volume
    2009-Supplement
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report a real-time optical OFDM transmitter with the highest sampling rate to date. Generation and transmission of an 8.36Gb/s digitally up-converted single sideband OFDM signal over 1600km of uncompensated fiber with a BER≪10−3 was achieved.
  • Keywords
    Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; OFDM; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Quadrature phase shift keying; Sampling methods; Signal generators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5395708