Title :
PMD-Supported Coherent Optical OFDM Systems
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Vic.
Abstract :
Although polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) greatly impairs conventional high-speed single-carrier systems, it is shown that for multicarrier systems such as coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexed systems (CO-OFDM), not only does PMD not cause any impairment, but it also provides a benefit of polarization diversity against polarization-dependent-loss-induced fading and consequently improves the system margin. The PMD benefit to fiber nonlinearity reduction in CO-OFDM systems is also predicted
Keywords :
fading; frequency division multiplexing; light coherence; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; coherent optical systems; fading; fiber nonlinearity reduction; orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexed systems; polarization diversity; polarization mode dispersion; polarization-dependent loss; Fading; High speed optical techniques; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Polarization mode dispersion; Coherent communications; optical fiber polarization; orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); polarization-mode dispersion (PMD);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.889035
