{"title":"A comparative study of nonlinear companding schemes for CO-OFDM transmissions","authors":"S. Azou, S. Bejan, P. Morel, A. Sharaiha","doi":"10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Wang's nonlinear companding scheme is investigated here for the first time for CO-OFDM transmissions. As a result of an optimal predistortion function design, we demonstrate a 3 dB BER advantage for a system employing a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA).","PeriodicalId":364683,"journal":{"name":"2014 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2014 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Wang's nonlinear companding scheme is investigated here for the first time for CO-OFDM transmissions. As a result of an optimal predistortion function design, we demonstrate a 3 dB BER advantage for a system employing a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA).