Theoretical and experimental evaluation of clipping and quantization noise for optical OFDM

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17713-17728

  Berger, Christian R ^a   Benlachtar, Yannis ^b   Killey, Robert I ^b   Milder, Peter A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BIT ERROR RATE; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BIT RESOLUTION; CLIPPING RATIOS; DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIGH CAPACITY; LIMITED RESOLUTION; OFDM SIGNAL; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL OFDM; OPTICAL POWER; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; QUANTIZATION NOISE; RATIO ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 80052217018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017713     Document Type: Article

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