Performance comparison of a fiber optic communication system based on optical OFDM and an optical OFDM-MIMO with Alamouti code by using numerical simulations

C. M. Serpa-Imbett; J. Marín-Alfonso; C. Gómez-Santamaría; L. Betancur-Agudelo; F. Amaya-Fernández

doi:10.1117/12.2035687

23 December 2013 Performance comparison of a fiber optic communication system based on optical OFDM and an optical OFDM-MIMO with Alamouti code by using numerical simulations

C. M. Serpa-Imbett, J. Marín-Alfonso, C. Gómez-Santamaría, L. Betancur-Agudelo, F. Amaya-Fernández

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Proceedings Volume 9043, 2013 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Signal Processing; 90430F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2035687
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology (OIT2013), 2013, Beijing, China

Abstract

Space division multiplexing in multicore fibers is one of the most promise technologies in order to support transmissions of next-generation peta-to-exaflop-scale supercomputers and mega data centers, owing to advantages in terms of costs and space saving of the new optical fibers with multiple cores. Additionally, multicore fibers allow photonic signal processing in optical communication systems, taking advantage of the mode coupling phenomena. In this work, we numerically have simulated an optical MIMO-OFDM (multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) by using the coded Alamouti to be transmitted through a twin-core fiber with low coupling. Furthermore, an optical OFDM is transmitted through a core of a singlemode fiber, using pilot-aided channel estimation. We compare the transmission performance in the twin-core fiber and in the singlemode fiber taking into account numerical results of the bit-error rate, considering linear propagation, and Gaussian noise through an optical fiber link. We carry out an optical fiber transmission of OFDM frames using 8 PSK and 16 QAM, with bit rates values of 130 Gb/s and 170 Gb/s, respectively. We obtain a penalty around 4 dB for the 8 PSK transmissions, after 100 km of linear fiber optic propagation for both singlemode and twin core fiber. We obtain a penalty around 6 dB for the 16 QAM transmissions, with linear propagation after 100 km of optical fiber. The transmission in a two-core fiber by using Alamouti coded OFDM-MIMO exhibits a better performance, offering a good alternative in the mitigation of fiber impairments, allowing to expand Alamouti coded in multichannel systems spatially multiplexed in multicore fibers.

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C. M. Serpa-Imbett, J. Marín-Alfonso, C. Gómez-Santamaría, L. Betancur-Agudelo, and F. Amaya-Fernández "Performance comparison of a fiber optic communication system based on optical OFDM and an optical OFDM-MIMO with Alamouti code by using numerical simulations", Proc. SPIE 9043, 2013 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Signal Processing, 90430F (23 December 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2035687

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Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Optical fibers

Single mode fibers

Dispersion

Phase shift keying

Quadrature amplitude modulation

Fiber optic communications

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