Conference Proceedings
Study of nonlinearity and dynamic range of coherent optical OFDM receivers
Y Tang, W Chen, W Shieh
Optics Infobase Conference Papers | Optica Publishing Group | Published : 2008
Abstract
We study through theoretical analysis and simulate the nonlinearity and dynamic range for both balanced and single-ended receiver. The 0.5-dB Q-penalty dynamic range for singleended receiver is 12 dB at laser RIN of -160 dBc/Hz © 2007 Optical Society of America.