Experimental Demonstration of a Coherently Modulated and Directly Detected Optical OFDM System Using an RF-Tone Insertion

Wei-Ren Peng, Xiaoxia Wu, Vahid R. Arbab, Bishara Shamee, Louis Christen, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Kai-Ming Feng, Alan E. Willner, Sien Chi

2008 · 39 citations · 1 references

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an RF-tone assisted OFDM transmission. Our system has a 5-dB better sensitivity compared to the conventional baseband SSB-OFDM and exhibits a negligible penally transmission after 260 km of SSMF.

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