Title :
Blind symbol synchronisation in direct-detection optical OFDM using virtual subcarriers
Author :
Bouziane, Rachid ; Milder, Peter A. ; Kilmurray, Sean ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Pachnicke, Stephan ; Bayvel, Polina ; Killey, Robert I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London (UCL), London, UK
Abstract :
We investigate the performance of a novel blind symbol synchronisation technique using a 30.65Gb/s real-time 16-QAM OFDM transmitter with direct detection. The proposed scheme exhibits low complexity and does not have any bandwidth overhead.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; real-time systems; synchronisation; bit rate 30.65 Gbit/s; blind symbol synchronisation; direct-detection optical OFDM; real-time 16-QAM OFDM transmitter; virtual subcarriers; Digital signal processing; High-speed optical techniques; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th3K.5
