Abstract: In this paper, we have simulated Coherent Detection Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system with different type of modulation techniques such as Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and Phase Shift Keying (PSK). 64-QAM and 16-PSK modulation with same number of subcarriers were applied to CO-OFDM system to achieve the best Bit Error Rate (BER) performance. According to the best BER, the downstream data rate was chosen to be 60 Gbps and transmission distance was changed from 50 to 350 km. According to the simulation results by using Optisystem software, CO-OFDM system with 16 PSK and 128 subcarriers achieved the best BER performance for long propagation.
Keywords: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Phase Shift Keying (PSK), Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), CoherentDetection OFDM (CO-OFDM)
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