Title :
Performance limits of all-optical OFDM systems
Author :
Hoxha, J. ; Cincotti, Gabriella
Author_Institution :
Eng. Dept., Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
Limits of the bit error rate (BER), information spectral efficiency and transmission reach are analyzed for an all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (AO-OFDM) with 200Gbaud/s symbol rate and quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) or quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM).
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; AO-OFDM; BER; QAM; QPSK; all-optical OFDM systems; all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; bit error rate; information spectral efficiency; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase-shift keying; transmission reach; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical receivers; ASE noise; All optical OFDM; coherent receivers; phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cartagena
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602969
