DocumentCode
515975
Title
Experimental demonstration on the reduction of linewidth impact in a self-heterodyne optical OFDM system
Author
Zan, Zuraidah ; Du, Liang B Y ; Lowery, Arthur J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Melbourne, VIC, Australia
fYear
2010
fDate
21-25 March 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We show experimentally that the signal quality of a self-heterodyne optical OFDM system can be improved by temporally realigning the carrier with the subcarriers before photodetection. This can be explained by self-heterodyne linewidth measurement theory.
Keywords
OFDM modulation; photodetectors; linewidth impact reduction; optical orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing; photodetection; self-heterodyne linewidth measurement theory; self-heterodyne optical OFDM system; Delay; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; OFDM; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Phase noise;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-884-1
Type
conf
Filename
5465688
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