100 Gbps optical communication



OFDM versus single-carrier transmission for 100 Gbps optical communication

FREE-DOWNLOAD [PDF] A Barbieri, G Colavolpe, T Foggi… – Journal of Lightwave …, 2010 –
Abstract—We analyze the orthogonal frequency division mul- tiplexing (OFDM) technique in
long-haul next generation optical communication links and compare it with the well-established
single-carrier (SC) data transmission using high-level modulation formats and coherent