Title :
Phase noise robustness of SIM-OFDM in CO-OFDM transmission
Author :
Jan, O. ; Sandel, David ; El-Darawy, M. ; Puntsri, K. ; Al-Bermani, A. ; Noe, Reinhold
Author_Institution :
ONT, Univ. of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Abstract :
We present the robustness of subcarrier-index modulation OFDM to combat laser phase noise. Simulation results show the ability of using DFB lasers with SIM-OFDM in 16-QAM CO-OFDM system with 1024-point FFT.
Keywords :
Fourier transform optics; OFDM modulation; distributed feedback lasers; fast Fourier transforms; laser noise; optical communication equipment; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; 1024-point FFT; 16-QAM CO-OFDM system; DFB lasers; SIM-OFDM; coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing; distributed feedback lasers; fast Fourier transform; laser phase noise; phase noise robustness; quadrature amplitude modulation; subcarrier-index modulation; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Modulation; OFDM; Optical noise; Phase noise;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on