First experimental demonstration of real-time dual-band optical OFDM transmission at 17.5Gb/s over an EML-based 25km SSMF IMDD system using 4GS/s DAC/ADCs

Author

Giddings, R.P. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Ben-Ezra, S. ; Tang, J.M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Bangor Univ., Bangor, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Utilising only 4GS/s DAC/ADCs and without increasing component bandwidths, record-high real-time end-to-end dual-band 17.5Gb/s optical OFDM transmission is experimentally demonstrated over an EML-based 25km SSMF IMDD system. The employed 2GHz baseband and 6±2GHz passband achieve 10Gb/s and 7.5Gb/s, respectively by adaptive bit/power loading.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; analogue-digital conversion; digital-analogue conversion; electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; ADC; DAC; EML; SSMF IMDD system; adaptive bit loading; adaptive power loading; analog-digital converter; digital-analog converter; direct detection; distance 25 km; dual band optical OFDM transmission; electro-absorption modulated laser; frequency division multiplexing; intensity modulation; real time OFDM transmission; standard single mode fiber; Baseband; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical transmitters; Passband; Radio frequency; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Type

conf

Filename

6706100