Over 100 Gb/s Electro-Optically Multiplexed OFDM for High-Capacity Optical Transport Network

Author

Kobayashi, Takayuki ; Sano, Akihide ; Yamada, Eiichi ; Yoshida, Eiji ; Miyamoto, Yutaka

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

27

Issue

16

fYear

2009

Firstpage

3714

Lastpage

3720

Abstract

100-Gb/s-class high-speed transmission technologies are essential to realize future 100 G Ethernet transmission over wide area networks. Optical OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is promising for high-speed transmission because of its narrow bandwidth and superior tolerance to chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. In this paper, we show numerically that the nonlinear tolerance of optical OFDM increases as the subcarriers is decreased and describe novel electro-optic subcarrier multiplexing scheme to generate an over 100 Gb/s high speed optical OFDM signal with a small number of subcarriers. We successfully generate a 100 G-class optical OFDM signal and demonstrate transmission over 80-km of ITU-T G.652 single-mode fiber without dispersion compensation.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; electro-optical effects; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; subcarrier multiplexing; Ethernet transmission; ITU-T G.652 single-mode fiber; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion; distance 80 km; electro-optic subcarrier multiplexing scheme; electro-optically multiplexed OFDM; high-capacity optical transport network; high-speed transmission technology; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; polarization mode dispersion; wide area networks; Digital signal processing; fiber-optic transmission systems; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2024008

Filename

5033551