Real-Time Coherent Optical OFDM Receiver at 2.5-GS/s for Receiving a 54-Gb/s Multi-band Signal

22 March 2009

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Abstract: We demonstrate the real-time implementation of a FPGA-based coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) receiver at 2.5- Gsamples/s, which successfully receives a subband of a 54-Gb/s multi-band CO-OFDM signal with a record-low error floor of 3.7x10-8.