• DocumentCode
    3196654
  • Title

    Nonlinear limits for high bit-rate O-OFDM systems

  • Author

    Buchali, Fred ; Dischler, Roman ; Liu, Xiang ; Arkarachinores, Arkarin ; Strobel, Otto

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-22 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    83
  • Lastpage
    84
  • Abstract
    Optical OFDM´s high PAPR values limit the systems nonlinear tolerance (NLT). A 2.6-dB improvement in NLT has been found by peak clipping. Towards higher bit rates above 50 Gb/s, we observe an additional NLT increase of 8 dB per 10x increase in signal bit rate.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; optical fibre communication; high bit-rate; nonlinear tolerance; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; peak clipping; peak to average power ratio; signal bit rate; Bit rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Peak to average power ratio; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Summer Topical Meeting, 2009. LEOSST '09. IEEE/LEOS
  • Conference_Location
    Newport Beach, CA
  • ISSN
    1099-4742
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3913-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1099-4742
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOSST.2009.5226257
  • Filename
    5226257