The limit of transmission distance for an inter-symbol-interference-free optical OFDM system

Author

Peng, Wei-Ren ; Feng, Kai-Ming ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Photonics & Inst. of Electro-Opt. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu

fYear

2008

Firstpage

69

Lastpage

70

Abstract

We show that the transmission distance is limited by the trade-off between the cyclic prefix and signal bandwidth for a direct-detected optical OFDM system. The maximum transmission distance with different QAM sizes and subcarrier numbers are also discussed.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; intersymbol interference; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; quadrature amplitude modulation; QAM; cyclic prefix; direct-detected optical OFDM system; fiber chromatic dispersion; intersymbol interference; optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; transmission distance; Bandwidth; Digital signal processing chips; Intersymbol interference; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Quadrature amplitude modulation; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4080) Modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the

Conference_Location

Acapulco

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1931-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1932-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688492

Filename

4688492