title: Transmission simulation of coherent optical OFDM signals in WDM systems.
abstract: In this letter, we first present the theoretical basis for coherent optical OFDM systems in direct up/down conversion architecture. We then demonstrate the transmission performance through simulation for WDM systems with coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) including the fiber nonlinearity effect. The results show that the system Q of the WDM channels at 10 Gb/s is over 13.0 dB for a transmission up to 4800 km of standard-single-mode-fiber (SSMF) without dispersion compensation. A novel technique of partial carrier filling (PCF) for improving the nonlinearity performance of the transmission is also presented. The system Q of the WDM channels with a filling factor of 50 % at 10 Gb/s is improved from 15.1 dB to 16.8 dB for a transmission up to 3200 km of SSMF without dispersion compensation.
authors.affiliation: ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia. h.bao@ee.unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Hongchun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Shieh