Electro-Optic Frequency Offset Estimator for Optical OFDM

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Jignesh, Jokhakar; Zhu, Chen (Electro-Photonics Lab, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Sys. Monash University, Australia)
Corcoran, Bill; Lowery, Arthur (Electro-Photonics Lab, Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Sys. Monash University, Australia & Centre of Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Australia)

Abstract:
We present a new design for an electro-optic carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimator for optical OFDM systems, and experimentally demonstrate CFO estimation using off-the-shelf components, capable of tracking up to ±500 MHz offsets from a 28-Gbaud OFDM signal.