Conference Proceedings
Fiber nonlinearity mitigation by PAPR reduction in coherent optical OFDM systems via Active Constellation Extension
BS Krongold, Y Tang, W Shieh
European Conference on Optical Communication ECOC | Published : 2008
Abstract
We consider Active Constellation Extension to reduce the PAPR in CO-OFDM systems. We find that the nonlinearity threshold is improved by 1.5 dB at a reach of 400 km SSMF fiber. © 2008 IEEE.