Theoretical characterization of nonlinear clipping effects in IM/DD optical OFDM systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2304-2312

  Chen, Liang ^a   Krongold, Brian ^a   Evans, Jamie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

direct detection; intensity modulation; Optical OFDM

Indexed keywords

CLIPPING DISTORTION; DIRECT DETECTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MODULATION CONSTELLATIONS; OPTICAL OFDM; OPTICAL ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM); PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84885843799     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.060112.110136     Document Type: Article

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