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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Summer Topical Meeting, 2009. LEOSST '09. IEEE/LEOS
Conference_Location :
Newport Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3913-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1099-4742
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2009.5226257
