AbstractA CO-OFDM system combines the advantages of both coherent detection and OFDM modulation for future high speed fiber transmission. In this paper, we propose an I/Q modulation technique using dual-drive MZMs for high rate 10 Gb/s CO-OFDM system. The proposed modulator provides 10.63 dBm improved optical spectra compared to a single dual-drive MZM. The simulation results in terms of BER and Q factor are quite satisfactory upto a transmission reach of 3,000 km and that to without making use of any dispersion compensation. A BER of about 8.03×10−10and 15.06 dB Q factor have been achieved at −10.43 dBm received optical power.
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is applied to optical communication widely because of its robustness against channel dispersion and high spectral efficiency. But the synchronization between transmitter and receiver is a critical factor for system performances. This paper proposes an improved frame timing synchronization algorithm for optical OFDM system to keep synchronization by delay time compensation. The simulation of 40 Gb/s single-side-band (SSB) direct-detection optical OFDM system is setup and investigated. The curve of timing metric and the constellation of four-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) are given in the paper. And the transmission distance using the proposed method is compared with Park method. The simulation results show that the improved frame synchronization method promote the performances of optical OFDM system greatly. The distance can be 1600 km without dispersion compensation under the bit error ratio of 10-4.
Performance analysis of an all-optical OFDM system in presence of non-linear phase noise