• DocumentCode
    2061094
  • Title

    Fiber nonlinearity mitigation by PAPR reduction in coherent optical OFDM systems via active constellation extension

  • Author

    Krongold, Brian S. ; Tang, Yan ; Shieh, William

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We consider active constellation extension to reduce the PAPR in CO-OFDM systems. We find that the nonlinearity threshold is improved by 1.5 dB at a reach of 400 km SSMF fiber.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; active constellation extension; coherent optical OFDM systems; distance 400 km; fiber nonlinearity mitigation; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Peak to average power ratio; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brussels
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2227-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2228-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729499
  • Filename
    4729499