Adaptively loaded offset-QAM OFDM based on set-partitioned QAM in IMDD systems

作者:Zhao, Jian*; Ji, Fei; Townsend, Paul
来源:17th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2018-11-16 To 2018-11-19.
DOI:10.1117/12.2524852

摘要

We propose adaptively loaded set-partitioned offset quadrature amplitude modulation (SP-offset-QAM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for low-cost intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM/DD) communication systems. We compare this scheme with conventional OFDM in 40-Gbit/s experiments over 50-km single-mode fiber. It is shown that the use of SP-QAM formats, together with the adaptive loading algorithm specifically designed to this group of formats, improves the performance of offset-QAM OFDM. It is also shown that the proposed scheme exhibits better performance than SP-QAM based conventional OFDM at back-to-back and after 50-km transmission.

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