Conference Proceedings
Characterization and monitoring of laser linewidths in coherent optical OFDM systems
X Chen, AA Amin, W Shieh
Optics Infobase Conference Papers | Published : 2011
Abstract
We demonstrate monitoring of digitally-generated laser linewidths for 107-Gb/s coherent optical OFDM systems. Unique characteristics of time-domain phase-error variance are exploited to extract laser linewidths after 960-km transmission over SSMF fiber. © OSA/OFC/NFOEC 2011.