Significant overhead reduction of multi-band Tb/s coherent optical OFDM systems

The timing and optical laser phase of individual bands in multi-band OFDM are correlated. We significantly reduce the OFDM overhead through using FFT window synchronization for channel estimation and sharing pilot subcarriers for phase estimation.

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