Analytical expressions for nonlinear transmission performance of coherent optical OFDM systems with frequency guard band

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 2447-2454

  Gao, Guanjun ^a,b   Chen, Xi ^b   Shieh, William ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent communications; nonlinear transmission performance; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COHERENT COMMUNICATION; FIBER DISPERSION; FREQUENCY SPACING; GUARD BANDS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL OFDM; Q-FACTORS; SPLIT-STEP METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84863471010     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2200652     Document Type: Article

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