OFDM versus single-carrier transmission for 100 Gbps optical communication

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2537-2551

  Barbieri, Alan ^a,b   Colavolpe, Giulio ^a   Foggi, Tommaso ^c   Forestieri, Enrico ^d   Prati, Giancarlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c CNIT Research Unit   (Italy)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross phase modulation (XPM); four wave mixing (FWM); group velocity dispersion (GVD); optical coherent transmission systems; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); phase shift keying (PSK); polarization mode dispersion (PMD); self phase modulation (SPM); single carrier transmissions

Indexed keywords

COHERENT TRANSMISSION; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION (GVD); ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION (PMD); SINGLE-CARRIER TRANSMISSION;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIGHT VELOCITY; MODULATION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

SELF PHASE MODULATION;

EID: 77956114634     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2055041     Document Type: Article

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