Realizing Real-Time Implementation of Coherent Optical OFDM Receiver with FPGAs

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Kaneda, Noriaki; Yang, Qi; Chen, Young-Kai (Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA)
Yang, Qi (Victoria Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia)
Li, Xiang (Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA)
Shieh, William (ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks and National ICT Australia, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia)

Abstract:
Recent results of real-time coherent optical OFDM receiver are reviewed. Requirements and challenges pertaining to high-speed real-time implementation of CO-OFDM receiver are discussed. An implemented receiver in a FPGA at 2.5GSamples/s is described.