Improvement of transmission performance of adaptively modulated optical OFDM signals

An adaptively modulated optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OOFDM) based system has been simulated in present research. Performance analysis in terms of bit error rate (BER) and signal to noise ratio (SNR) has been carried over the system using fixed modulation for different M-array quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM). An adaptive modulation over OOFDM has been analyzed over three different algorithmic schemes. Impact of adaptive modulation on spectral efficiency has also been investigated for OOFDM. Simulation results show the enhancement in terms of spectral efficiency and capacity for adaptively modulated OOFDM system.