Abstract
In this paper, we experimentally demonstrated transmission of a 100-Gb/s discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread 32-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) discrete multitone (DMT) signal in an intensity-modulation/direct-detection system utilizing a direct-modulated laser. We find that DFT-spread cannot only reduce the peak-to-average power ratio but also improve the robustness to high-frequency power attenuation and narrow-band interference in the high-speed short-reach optical communication systems. Vestigial sideband (VSB) enabled by a narrow-bandwidth tunable optical filter can be adopted to resist the power fading effect induced by the fiber chromatic dispersion after direct detection. The measured bit error ratio (BER) of 100-Gb/s VSB DFT-spread DMT signal after 20-km large effective area fiber is less than the hard-decision forward-error-correction (HD-FEC) limitation of 3.8 × 10-3.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7904307 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Journal |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- 32QAM
- DFT-spread
- DMT
- Vestigial sideband (VSB)