The Golden Haggadah

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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in photonic communications

OFDM has emerged as a promising modulation technique in long-haul and access optical networks because of a number of advantages: Scalable spectrum partitioning, good spectral efficiency, dispersion tolerance, and a natural suitability for software-defined transmission. However, there are also issues inherent in OFDM: High peak-to-average power ratio making the system more susceptible to nonlinearity, sensitivity to frequency offset and phase noise, and the required computational complexity. With the advent of powerful digital signal processors and by exploiting all-optical signal processing, some of these obstacles can be overcome

All-optical FFT signal processing of a 10.8 Tb/s single channel OFDM signal

OFDM data with line rates at 10.8 Tbit/s is generated and decoded with a real-time alloptical FFT receiver

Single source optical OFDM transmitter and optical FFT receiver demonstrated at line rates of 5.4 and 10.8 Tbit/s

OFDM data with line rates of 5.4 Tbit/s or 10.8 Tbit/s are generated and decoded with a new real-time all-optical FFT receiver. Each of 75 carriers of a comb source is encoded with 18 GBd QPSK or 16-QAM