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Extensive Comparisons of Optical Fast-OFDM and Conventional Optical OFDM for Local and Access Networks
Giacoumidis E, Tsokanos A, Mouchos H, Zardas G, Alves C, Wei JL, Tang JM, Gosset C, Jaouën Y, Tomkos I
IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Volume 4, Issue 10, pp724-733, 2012
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A performance comparison between a recently proposed novel technique known as fast orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (FOFDM) and conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is undertaken over unamplified, intensity-modulated, and direct-detected directly modulated laser-based optical signals. Key transceiver parameters, such as the maximum achievable transmission capacity and the digital-to-analog/analog-to-digital converter (DAC/ADC) effects are explored thoroughly. It is shown that, similarly to conventional OFDM, the least complex and bandwidth efficient FOFDM can support up to ~20 Gb/s over 500 m worst-case multimode fiber (MMF) links having 3 dB effective bandwidths of ~200 MHz × km. For compensation of the DAC/ADC roll-off, a power-loading (PL) algorithm is adopted, leading to an FOFDM system improvement of ~4 dB. FOFDM and conventional OFDM give similar optimum DAC/ADC parameters over 500 m worst-case MMF, while over 50 km single-mode fiber a maximum deviation of only ~1 dB in clipping ratio is observed due to the imperfect chromatic dispersion compensation caused by one-tap equalizers.

Giacoumidis E, Tsokanos A, Mouchos H, Zardas G, Alves C, Wei JL, Tang JM, Gosset C, Jaouën Y, Tomkos I