Optical OFDM as a Promising Technique for Bandwidth-Efficient High-Speed Data Transmission over Optical Fiber

Application of the orthogonal frequencydivision multiplexing (OFDM) technique for optical highspeed fiber communication is reviewed within this paper. Several choices of implementation are discussed as well as special properties of the optical transmission link affecting the OFDM technique are clarified. Especially, nonlinear properties are taken into account and investigated by simulation. It is shown that transmission of 40Gb/s over 640km of standard single-mode fiber is possible without any dispersion compensation.

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