Fiber nonlinearity mitigation in optical links that use OFDM for dispersion compensation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1556-1558

  Lowery, Arthur J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic dispersion compensation (EDC); Fiber nonlinearity; Modulation; Optical communications; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATIOS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ELECTRONIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION (EDC); FIBER NONLINEARITIES; FIBER NONLINEARITY; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); POWER LIMIT; PRE-COMPENSATION; TRANSMISSION POWER; TUNING PARAMETER;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FIBERS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 35148837862     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.903962     Document Type: Article

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