Performance of coherent detection for FTN-DFTs-OFDM signal using receiver-side quadrature duobinary shaping

In this paper we investigate Faster-than-Nyquist Discrete-Fourier-Transform spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (FTN-DFTs-OFDM) signaling which combines the features of both single carrier FTN and OFDM system. By introducing the quadrature duo-binary (QDB) filtering at the receiver side, the transmitted OFDM signal can be packed in a sub-Nyquist spacing, which improves the spectral efficiency (SE) compared to conventional detection schemes. Maximum a posteriori (MAP) and maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) criteria have been both used and compared to find an optimal equalization scheme for combating FTN multiplexing at transmitter side and QDB filtering at receiver side. The simulations result show that by applying QDB filtering at the receiver side, the back-to-back (BTB) required optical signal noise ratio (OSNR) at bit error rate (BER) of 1 × 10−2 is reduced by 1.5-dB for 20-GHz spaced 128-Gb/s polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature-phase-shift-keying (PDM-QPSK) signal, achieving a SE of 6.4-b/s/Hz.