Design Considerations for a Digital Subcarrier Coherent Optical Modem

David Krause, Ahmed Awadalla, Abdullah S. Karar, Han Sun, Kuang-Tsan Wu

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2017 · 29 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Subcarrier modulation is shown to provide a number of system benefits including complexity savings in dispersion compensation, Kerr nonlinearity mitigation and flexibility in spectral efficiency. Design considerations are discussed.

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