Low cost direct modulation and coherent detection optical OFDM for metro applications

Nir Sheffi; Dan Sadot

doi:10.1117/12.874172

24 January 2011 Low cost direct modulation and coherent detection optical OFDM for metro applications

Nir Sheffi, Dan Sadot

Proceedings Volume 7960, Coherent Optical Communication: Components, Subsystems, and Systems; 796005 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874172
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

High speed transmission systems (> 10 Gb/s) for cost-sensitive applications such as metropolitan network have attracted extensive interest due to the explosive data traffic growth in such applications. Optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based on direct modulation and direct detection for single-mode fiber (SMF) and multi-mode fiber (MMF) without optical amplification and chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation was proposed. Recent research has also shown that optical OFDM can be used with electronic dispersion compensation using direct detection in SMF. However, laser frequency chirp has been identified as a key limiting factor of capacity-versus-reach performance. In this paper, we present a novel concept of low cost optical OFDM with direct modulation of distributed feedback (DFB) lasers and coherent detection at 51.4 Gb/s and 64 QAM. A comprehensive theoretical model of the proposed system is developed. The proposed optical OFDM system concept and performance is based upon using electronic precompensation of laser frequency response, and electronic post compensation of DFB laser frequency chirp and CD. A numerical simulation of the transmission performance of the aforementioned system is conducted using different fiber lengths (40 km, 60 km, 120 km) and chirp parameters, which shows its attractiveness for access and metro applications.

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Nir Sheffi and Dan Sadot "Low cost direct modulation and coherent detection optical OFDM for metro applications", Proc. SPIE 7960, Coherent Optical Communication: Components, Subsystems, and Systems, 796005 (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.874172

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