Variation of Q factor over varying chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion for M-QAM-OOFDM system

Abstract

Despite of large amounts of research work on Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed system (OOFDM) in recent years, the area demands more exploration to investigate further potential, as it offer high spectral efficiency and flexibility. This paper simulates and presents performance analysis of signal conditioning parameters that can implement adaptivity. It reports Q-factor and bit error rate (BER) as performance metrics over varying polarization mode dispersion and chromatic dispersion for 16-QAM-OOFDM and 64-QAM-OOFDM transmissions. These signal conditioning parameters can be used for implementing adaptivity in OOFDM transmissions to achieve better transmission performance.