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A survey on OFDM-based elastic core optical networking
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a modulation technology that has been widely adopted in many new and emerging broadband wireless and wireline communication systems. Due to its capability to transmit a high-speed data stream using multiple spectral-overlapped lower-speed subcarriers, OFDM technology offers superior advantages of high spectrum efficiency, robustness against inter-carrier and inter-symbol interference, adaptability to server channel conditions, etc. In recent years, there have been intensive studies on optical OFDM (O-OFDM) transmission technologies, and it is considered a promising technology for future ultra-high-speed optical transmission. Based on O-OFDM technology, a novel elastic optical network architecture with immense flexibility and scalability in spectrum allocation and data rate accommodation could be built to support diverse services and the rapid growth of Internet traffic in the future. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on OFDM-based elastic optical network technologies, including basic principles of OFDM, O-OFDM technologies, the architectures of OFDM-based elastic core optical networks, and related key enabling technologies. The main advantages and issues of OFDM-based elastic core optical networks that are under research are also discussed
Optical distribution of OFDM and impulse-radio UWB in FTTH networks
Proposal, experimental demonstration and performance comparison of impulse-radio UWB and OFDM UWB distribution in FTTH networks for high-definition audio/video broadcasting is presented. OFDM-UWB exhibits better performance compared with its impulse-radio counterpart with better spectral efficiency
A survey on fiber nonlinearity compensation for 400 Gbps and beyond optical communication systems
Optical communication systems represent the backbone of modern communication
networks. Since their deployment, different fiber technologies have been used
to deal with optical fiber impairments such as dispersion-shifted fibers and
dispersion-compensation fibers. In recent years, thanks to the introduction of
coherent detection based systems, fiber impairments can be mitigated using
digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. Coherent systems are used in the
current 100 Gbps wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) standard technology.
They allow the increase of spectral efficiency by using multi-level modulation
formats, and are combined with DSP techniques to combat the linear fiber
distortions. In addition to linear impairments, the next generation 400 Gbps/1
Tbps WDM systems are also more affected by the fiber nonlinearity due to the
Kerr effect. At high input power, the fiber nonlinear effects become more
important and their compensation is required to improve the transmission
performance. Several approaches have been proposed to deal with the fiber
nonlinearity. In this paper, after a brief description of the Kerr-induced
nonlinear effects, a survey on the fiber nonlinearity compensation (NLC)
techniques is provided. We focus on the well-known NLC techniques and discuss
their performance, as well as their implementation and complexity. An extension
of the inter-subcarrier nonlinear interference canceler approach is also
proposed. A performance evaluation of the well-known NLC techniques and the
proposed approach is provided in the context of Nyquist and super-Nyquist
superchannel systems.Comment: Accepted in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial
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