Experimental demonstration of digital coherent superposition of optical OFDM subcarrier pairs for mitigation of linear and nonlinear phase noise

We experimentally demonstrate digital coherent superposition of optical OFDM subcarrier pairs with Hermitian symmetry to mitigate phase noise, including laser phase noise and cross-phase modulation in a WDM transmission.

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