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Complex field reconstruction of optical OFDM signals based on temporal transport-of-intensity equation
Abstract:
Field reconstruction of optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in a direct-detection (DD) receiver by using temporal transport-of-intensity equation (TIE) is studied. It is shown that in this DD field reconstruction scheme, better BER performance is obtained by using the OFDM modulation than by using single carrier signals especially when low-frequency subcarriers of OFDM signals are not used. How phase errors are generated in solving the TIE is analyzed and it is shown that the process of integration with respect to time gives rise to low-frequency errors that degrade the performance. The DD phase retrieval scheme has favorable features that the solution is non-iterative and it allows using double side-band signals. Nevertheless, it is shown that the scheme has high sensitivity to electrical noise in detection and requires relatively high carrier to signal power ratio, to which further studies are expected to be devoted.
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