Effect of ADC on the performance of optical fast-OFDM in MMF/SMF-based links

E. Giacoumidis*, S. K. Ibrahim, J. Zhao, J. L. Wei, J. M. Tang, A. D. Ellis, I. Tomkos

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    Abstract

    Based on a recently proposed novel technique known as optical fast orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (FOFDM), which has half the bandwidth occupancy compared to single quadrature based conventional OFDM, investigations are undertaken into the impact of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) involved in FOFDM signals over unamplified intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IM/DD) multimode fiber (MMF) and singlemode-fiber (SMF) based links. It is evaluated, for the first time, two important issues: 1) The impact of signal quantization and clipping effects for identification of a set of ADC parameters using various FOFDM single-dimensional modulation formats; 2) The FOFDM ADC parameters are compared with the corresponding ADC parameters of a conventional OFDM over both MMF and SMF links. It is shown that FOFDM and conventional OFDM over MMF/SMF links have similar optimum ADC parameters for a targeted BER of 10 -3.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPIERS 2011 Suzhou - Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Proceedings
    Pages411-414
    Number of pages4
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2011
    EventProgress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2011 Suzhou - Suzhou, China
    Duration: 12 Sept 201116 Sept 2011

    Publication series

    NameProgress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium
    ISSN (Print)1559-9450

    Conference

    ConferenceProgress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, PIERS 2011 Suzhou
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CitySuzhou
    Period12/09/1116/09/11

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