Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 5, 449(2010)

Novel 64×2.5 Gb/s all-optical OFDM symbol generator based on triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 modulators

Yuan Li1,2, Wei Li1, Xiaojun Liang1, Kecheng Yang1, and Yaojun Qiao3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Department of Computer Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • show less

    We propose a novel and simple all-optical 160-Gb/s orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol generator which is based on discrete triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 modulators to realize largerange linear optical shift. The entire system needs 64 discrete modulators: at the transmitter, a 2.5-Gb/s optical duobinary (ODB) modulator for data modulation and a 2.5-Gb/s triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 phase modulator for phase shift to generate each subcarrier; and at the receiver, a 2.5-GHz optical band pass filter (OBPF) using Faraday anomalous dispersion optical effect to separate them. Excellent bit error rate (BER) is observed after 1060 km of transmission without any dispersion compensation.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Yuan Li, Wei Li, Xiaojun Liang, Kecheng Yang, Yaojun Qiao. Novel 64×2.5 Gb/s all-optical OFDM symbol generator based on triangle waveform driving-LiNbO3 modulators[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 449

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Received: Oct. 30, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 11, 2010

    The Author Email:

    DOI:10.3788/COL20100805.0449

    Topics