Subcarrier Index-Power Modulated Optical OFDM and its Performance in IMDD PON Systems

Fadi Nabih Al Halabi (1) , Lin Chen (1, 2) , Simon Parre (3) , Sylvain Barthomeuf (3) , R.P. Giddings (1) , Christelle Aupetit-Berthelemot (4) , Ali Hamie (5) , Jianming Tang (1)

1 School of Electronic Engineering, Bangor University
2 College of Electronics and Information Engineering - Shanghai University of Electric Power - Shangai - China
3 UNILIM - Université de Limoges
4 XLIM-SRI - Systèmes et Réseaux Intelligents
5 CRITC Lab, AUL University - Beirut - Liban

A novel transmission technique known as subcarrier index-power modulated optical OFDM (SIPM-OOFDM) is proposed, for the first time, by introducing an extra subcarrier index-power information-bearing dimension into conventional OOFDM. Detailed numerical simulations are undertaken of SIPM-OOFDM performance characteristics to identify optimum SIPM-OOFDM transceiver parameters and also to explore corresponding maximum achievable transmission performances over passive optical network (PON) systems based on intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IMDD). It is shown that, compared to conventional OOFDM, SIPM-OOFDM offers considerable signal transmission capacity improvement without increasing minimum required optical signal-to-noise ratios and degrading chromatic dispersion/nonlinearity tolerances.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Fadi Nabih Al Halabi, Lin Chen, Simon Parre, Sylvain Barthomeuf, R.P. Giddings, et al.. Subcarrier Index-Power Modulated Optical OFDM and its Performance in IMDD PON Systems. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016, ⟨10.1109/JLT.2016.2528679⟩. ⟨hal-01287629⟩