Power pre-emphasis for suppression of FWM in coherent optical OFDM transmission

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Abstract

Four-wave-mixing (FWM) due to the fiber nonlinearity is a major limiting factor in coherent optical OFDM transmission. We propose to apply power pre-emphasis, i.e. to allocate the transmitted power nonuniformly among subcarriers in order to suppress the FWM impairment. The proposed technique was numerically investigated for both single channel 15.6 Gbs CO-OFDM transmissions and 7-channel WDM transmissions, showing that up to 1 dB improvement in the system's Qfactor can be achieved without considering sophisticated power loading algorithms developed for wireless communications.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7238-7248
Number of pages11
JournalOptics Express
Volume22
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Mar 2014

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Keywords

  • OFDM coherent

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