Statistical Analysis of the Performance of Zero-padded and Cyclic-prefixed OFDM over Multimode Fibers

The transmission performance of cyclic-prefixed (CP) and zero-padded (ZP) OFDM over multimode fibers (MMFs) is statistically analyzed. It is demonstrated that ZP-OFDM is less sensitive to modal dispersion in MMF links and outperforms CP-OFDM