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Experimental demonstration of a coherently modulated and directly detected optical OFDM system using an RF-tone insertion
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Experimental demonstration of a coherently modulated and directly detected optical OFDM system using an RF-tone insertion

Wei-Ren Peng, Xiaoxia Wu, Vahid R. Arbab, Bishara Shamee, Louis C. Christen, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Kai-Ming Feng, Alan E. Willner and Sien Chi
OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 4528410
2008

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an RF-tone assisted OFDM transmission. Our system has a 5-dB better sensitivity compared to the conventional baseband SSB-OFDM and exhibits a negligible penalty transmission after 260 km of SSMF. © 2008 Optical Society of America.

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