Design and Analysis of a CO-OFDM Transmitter With Limited Modulator Extinction Ratio

In this paper, we consider the design and analysis of a coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) transmitter using an optical in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) modulator with limited extinction ratio (ER) under four modulation formats. The transmitter-side digital signal processing (DSP), including hard clipping and...

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Main Authors: Lingchen Huang, Changjian Guo, Sailing He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6798749/