Comparison of the nonlinear transmission performance of quasi-Nyquist WDM and reduced guard interval OFDM

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4198-4205

  Kilmurray, Sean ^a   Fehenberger, Tobias ^a   Bayvel, Polina ^a   Killey, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

GUARD INTERVALS; INFORMATION SPECTRAL DENSITY; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; TRANSMISSION DISTANCES;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84857345043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004198     Document Type: Article

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