Title :
Transmission channel rate for coherent optical OFDM - is the sky the limit?
Author :
Shieh, William ; Ma, Yiran ; Yang, Qi ; Chen, Simin ; Tang, Yan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We show that the channel rate of CO-OFDM systems can scale well beyond multi-Tb/s, only bounded by the available optical amplifier bandwidth. However, the benefit of high-spectral efficiency is diminished at these ultra-high channel rates.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical communication; optical fibre amplifiers; coherent optical OFDM systems; optical amplifier; transmission channel rate; Bandwidth; Ethernet networks; OFDM; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343366
