Clipping discrete multi-tone for peak-power-constraint IM/DD optical systems

Ji Zhou, Liangchuan Li, Jiale He, Xiaofeng Lu, Yu Bo, Guanyu Wang, Yuanda Huang, Gengchen Liu, Yanzhao Lu, Shecheng Gao, Yuanhua Feng, Shancheng Zhao, Weiping Liu, Changyuan Yu, Zhaohui Li

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Abstract

High peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is a major drawback of discrete multi-tone (DMT) in peak-power-constraint (PPC) intensity-modulation/direct-detection (IM/DD) optical systems. Symmetric clipping operation is a frequently-used and practical method for mitigating the PAPR of the DMT signal. However’ clipping noise is inevitably induced by the symmetric clipping operation’ thereby deteriorating the system’s performance. In this paper, we study the statistical characteristics of the clipping noise in detail. Depending on the statistical characteristics, clipping-noise-cancellation (CNC) algorithms are proposed to mitigate the clipping noise in the clipping DMT systems. Theoretically, the clipping noise can be completely removed using the low-density-parity-check-assisted CNC algorithm (LDPC-assisted CNC algorithm). To verify the superiority of the clipping DMT with the CNC algorithm, we conduct an experiment with a 50 Gb/s DMT system using 10G-class commercial devices for the scenario of PPC passive optical networks. The receiver sensitivity of the clipping DMT system with the CNC algorithm can reach −24 dBm at a 20% soft-decision forward-error-correction limit, which is 2.5 dB higher than that of the DMT system without clipping operation. The clipping operation and the CNC algorithm are added after the original digital signal processing, thereby demonstrating the potential to effectively overcome the drawback in DMT signals and other high-PAPR signals.

Original languageEnglish
Article number152302
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalScience China Information Sciences
Volume66
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2023

Keywords

  • clipping-noise cancellation
  • discrete multi-tone
  • intensity-modulation/direct-detection optical systems
  • peak-power constraint
  • peak-to-average power ratio

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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