Compensation of Phase Noise for Coherent Frequency Division Multiplexing in Optical Fiber Communications System

Abstract

In this paper, the Coherent Optical (CO) systems using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) for dispersion compensation is demonstrated. The Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QAM-OFDM transmitter signal was controlled by the Mach-Zender Modulator (MZM) which modulates the laser source with wavelength of 1550nm. The heterodyne receiver with dual-polarization optoelectronic down-converter is used to obtain good coherent detection without using optical phase locked loop. The analytical part was done using a software simulator. All the proposed system components were simulated using VPIphotonic simulation software for testing CO-OFDM system. The transmitted signal, optical spectrum, eye diagram and constellation diagram was obtained to evaluate system performance.