Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Using Symmetric Extension based Guard Interval in Optical Fast-OFDM

• DOI: 10.1364/ecoc.2011.we.8.a.3
• Publication Date: 2013-04-09T16:57:51Z
• Authors: Jian Zhao; Selwan K. Ibrahim; Paul Gunning; Andrew Ellis
• Keywords: Guard interval; Guard (computer science)

We propose symmetric extension based guard interval (GI) to enable CD compensation with one-tap equalizers after discrete-cosine transform in optical fast-OFDM, and experimentally demonstrate 20Gbit/s 4-ASK transmission over 124km field-installed SMF varied GI length.