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Coherent optical OFDM: theory and design
1ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks and National ICT Australia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. w.shieh@ee.unimelb.edu.au
Abstract:
Coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) has recently been proposed and the proof-of-concept transmission experiments have shown its extreme robustness against chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. In this paper, we first review the theoretical fundamentals for CO-OFDM and its channel model in a 2x2 MIMO-OFDM representation. We then present various design choices for CO-OFDM systems and perform the nonlinearity analysis for RF-to-optical up-converter. We also show the receiver-based digital signal processing to mitigate self-phase-modulation (SPM) and Gordon-Mollenauer phase noise, which is equivalent to the midspan phase conjugation.
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