All-optical OFDM transmission with coupler-based IFFT/FFT and pulse interleaving

Author

Huang, Yue-Kai ; Saperstein, Robert ; Wang, Ting

Author_Institution

NEC Labs. America Inc., Princeton, NJ

fYear

2008

Firstpage

408

Lastpage

409

Abstract

We report a novel design for high-speed all-optical OFDM employing coupler interferometry for IFFT/FFT. 160-Gb/s DQPSK transmission using eight sub-carriers was simulated, while 25-Gb/s DPSK experiment using two sub-carriers was performed using matched delay interferometers.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; differential phase shift keying; discrete Fourier transforms; light interferometry; optical couplers; optical pulse generation; optical pulse shaping; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; DQPSK transmission; all-optical OFDM transmission; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; coupler interferometry; coupler-based IFFT/FFT; discrete Fourier transforms; matched delay interferometers; optical couplers; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; optical pulse shaping; pulse interleaving; Couplings; Delay; Interleaved codes; OFDM; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Discrete Fourier transforms; optical couplers; optical pulse shaping; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing;

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.2008.4688663

Filename

4688663