Optical OFDM transmission based on phase modulation and fiber bragg grating

Abstract

In this work, we propose an optical OFDM system using phase modulation followed by optical filtering and direct detection. A fiber Bragg grating is used as an optical filter for phase to amplitude conversion. The performance of the proposed system is investigated for both 16 QAM- and 64 QAM-OFDM signals considering different numbers of training signals for frequency-domain channel estimation. With adequate choice of the training sequence length, BER results below 10−4 are reported for the 16 QAM based signal.