Low-cost adaptive directly modulated optical OFDM based on semiconductor optical amplifier

Inbal Kashany-Mizrahi, Dan Sadot

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Abstract

Low cost optical OFDM has great potential for next generation optical access networks and PONs, due to its high flexibility in bandwidth manipulation, and high spectral efficiency. Here, a low cost optical OFDM is proposed, based on adaptive direct modulation semiconductor optical amplifier. Adaptive current loading techniques for PAPR (peak to average power ratio) reduction are proposed and analyzed. Simulations show that the proposed adaptive techniques enable significant BER improvement.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)501-506
Number of pages6
JournalOptical Fiber Technology
Volume19
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

  • Adaptive current loading
  • Direct modulation Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Optical fiber communication
  • Peak to average power ratio (PAPR)
  • Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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