FPGA-Based Optical Transmitters for Electronic Predistortion and Advanced Signal Format Generation
Abstract
Abstract: We describe an optical transmitter, based on field programmable gate arrays, carrying out real-time DSP at 21.4 GSa/s. We implemented electronic predistortion at 10.7 Gb/s, and 8.35 Gb/s optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal generation. 1