Single source optical OFDM transmitter and optical FFT receiver demonstrated at line rates of 5.4 and 10.8 Tbit/s

Author

Hillerkuss, D. ; Schellinger, T. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Winter, M. ; Vallaitis, T. ; Bonk, R. ; Marculescu, A. ; Li, J. ; Dreschmann, M. ; Meyer, J. ; Ben Ezra, S. ; Narkiss, N. ; Nebendahl, B. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Resan, B. ; Weingarten, K. ;

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

OFDM data with line rates of 5.4 Tbit/s or 10.8 Tbit/s are generated and decoded with a new real-time all-optical FFT receiver. Each of 75 carriers of a comb source is encoded with 18 GBd QPSK or 16-QAM.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; fast Fourier transforms; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; QAM; QPSK; comb source; decoding; line rate; real-time all-optical FFT receiver; single source optical OFDM transmitter; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465779