A Coherent Optical OFDM Communication System with Nonlinear Distortion Compensation in the Channel and Receiver
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AbstractA simple and low-cost scheme is proposed for reducing the distortions in the coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system. The total wireless channel noise and the distortions in the receiver can be considered as an additive white Gaussian noise model and all distortions can be reduced using maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) equalizers. The performance of the CO-OFDM is analyzed for different fiber lengths and laser powers. Results show that the MLSE-equalized system can outperform with a higher