Optics Express paper

Our followup journal article, extending our ECOC 2012 paper has been published in Optics Express. You can read the article here.

“Real-time OFDM or Nyquist Pulse Generation — Which Performs Better with Limited Resources?” R. Schmogrow, R. Bouziane, M. Meyer, P. A. Milder, P. C. Schindler, R. I. Killey, P. Bayvel, C. Koos, W. Freude, and J. Leuthold. Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 26, pp. B543–B551. 2012.

This paper was chosen by the review committee as one of three highlights of the special issue on ECOC 2012.

Abstract: We investigate the performance and DSP resource requirements of digitally generated OFDM and sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses. The two multiplexing techniques are of interest as they offer highest spectral efficiency. The comparison aims at determining which technology performs better with limited processing capacities of state-of-the-art FPGAs. It is shown that a novel Nyquist pulse shaping technique, based on look-up tables requires lower resource count than equivalent IFFT-based OFDM signal generation while achieving similar performance with low inter- channel guard-bands in ultra-dense WDM. Our findings are based on a resource assessment of selected DSP implementations in terms of both simulations and experimental validations. The experiments were performed with real-time software-defined transmitters using a single or three optical carriers.

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