Distributed Ultradense Optical Frequency-Division Multiplexing Using Fiber Nonlinearity

Author

Elschner, Robert ; Richter, Thomas ; Kato, Toshihiko ; Watanabe, Shigetaka ; Schubert, Colja

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany

Volume

31

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb.15, 2013

Firstpage

628

Lastpage

633

Abstract

We extend our investigations on a recently proposed concept for distributed coherent optical orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) by fiber-frequency conversion for locally defined exact channel mapping based on free-running lasers. Experiments with quadrature phase-shift keying and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation subchannels show error-free performance and are compared to experiments with locally generated CO-OFDM.

Keywords

fibre lasers; frequency division multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 16-quadrature amplitude modulation subchannels; distributed ultradense optical frequency-division multiplexing; fiber nonlinearity; fiber-frequency conversion; free-running lasers; locally defined exact channel mapping; locally generated CO-OFDM; quadrature phase-shift keying; Frequency conversion; Frequency division multiplexing; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Coherent detection; fiber nonlinearity; frequency conversion; optical fiber communication; optical frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM); quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2012.2229259

Filename

6357196