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
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