Flexible all-optical OFDM using WSSs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Du, Liang B.; Schroder, Jochen; Carpenter, Joel; Eggleton, Benjamin J.; Lowery, Arthur J.
- Source
- 2013 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013. :1-3 Mar, 2013
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Optical fibers
Integrated optics
Optical receivers
Optical pulses
OFDM
Optical transmitters
- Language
A LCOS WSS implements an optical inverse Fourier transform for 10-Tb/s OFDM signal generation and cyclic prefix insertion. After 857.4 km of dispersion uncompensated transmission, a second WSS implemented optically-banded digital subcarrier demultiplexing.