Title :
OFDM for adaptive ultra high-speed optical networks
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
The introduction of OFDM into optical communications provides an exciting opportunity for future ultra high-speed optical networks that may offer adaptable rate, subwavelength accessibility, ´plug & play´ automatic installation, monitoring, and maintenance. CO-OFDM presents an alternative pathway toward 1 Tb/s Ethernet. As such, CO-OFDM offers a smooth road map of line rate migration from 100 Gb/s, to 400 Gb/s, to 1 Tb/s. Due to the chromatic dispersion in fiber, multicarrier signal possesses nonlinearity advantage over single-carrier at 100 Gb/s and beyond. Opto-electronic integration for 1-Tb/s OFDM transceiver is becoming a fertile field for future research. A few-mode fiber is investigated to deliver a capacity beyond 100 Tb/s per fiber.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; transceivers; CO-OFDM; Ethernet; OFDM transceiver; adaptive ultra high-speed optical networks; bit rate 1 Tbit/s; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; bit rate 400 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; few-mode fiber; multicarrier signal possess nonlinearity; optical communications; optoelectronic integration; Adaptive optics; Communication standards; Dispersion; High speed optical techniques; Interference; OFDM modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Wireless LAN;
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
