Spectral efficiency of optical FDM systems impaired by phase noise

The required frequency spacings between channels in an optical frequency division multiplexing (FDM) network are considered. The minimum permissible spacings consistent with meeting bit error rate (BER) objectives are derived. The assumed transmission uses on-off keying (OOK), at a data rate 1/T (in bits per second), via external modulation of a laser source having linewidth beta (in hertz). The assumed receiver consists of an optical channel selection filter followed by a p-i-n photodiode and a postdetection integrate-and-dump circuit. The analysis estimates the adjacent channel interference (ACI)-induced floor on BER for the middle of three FDM channels, as a function of frequency spacing and linewidth-to-bit rate ratio ( beta T). For BER=10/sup -9/ and beta T ranging from 0.32 to 5.12, the required channel spacing ranges from 5.2 to 27.5 bit rates. The multiplying factors associated with using (wide-deviation) frequency shift keying (FSK), coherent (heterodyne) detection, and infinitely many FDM channels, respectively, are estimated to be 2.0, at most 3.0, and at most 1.37. >

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