Novel 64 x 2.5 Gb/s all-optical OFDM symbol generator based on triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 modulators

作者:Li, Yuan*; Li, Wei; Liang, Xiaojun; Yang, Kecheng; Qiao, Yaojun
来源:Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 449-453.
DOI:10.3788/COL20100805.0449

摘要

We propose a novel and simple all-optical 160-Gb/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol generator which is based on discrete triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 modulators to realize large-range linear optical shift. The entire system needs 64 discrete modulators: at the transmitter, a 2.5-Gb/s optical duobinary (ODB) modulator for data modulation and a 2.5-Gb/s triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 phase modulator for phase shift to generate each subcarrier; and at the receiver, a 2.5-CHz optical band pass filter (OBPF) using Faraday anomalous dispersion optical effect to separate them. Excellent bit error rate (BER) is observed after 1060 km of transmission without any dispersion compensation.