System, Devices and Methods for Subcarrier Recovery at Local Oscillator Frequency in Optical OFDM System

摘要

The invention provides methods, devices and a system for recovering the corrupted subcarrier at the local oscillator (LO) frequency in coherent optical OFDM transmission. The method includes performing advanced coding on a data signal to obtain an encoded signal; performing high order modulation on the encoded signal to obtain a high-order-modulated signal; performing OFDM modulation on the high-order-modulated signal to obtain an electrical OFDM signal; and performing up-conversion on the electrical OFDM signal to obtain an optical OFDM signal to be output. The inventive technique of employing advanced coding with low rate combining with higher order modulation can be used to reduce the decoding bit error ratio (bit error rate) level, so that the LO subcarrier can be fully recovered while the bandwidth of the transmitted signal may be substantially the same as the existing optical OFDM system, and there is no need to add any feedback control module or feedback loop support or the like to the existing optical OFDM system, so that the complexity of the receiving side can be reduced.