Performance Improvement for Optical OFDM Systems Using Symbol Time Compression

Abstract Visible light communication (VLC) is now used to achieve high data rates. Optical-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM) is a strong technique for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD). Direct current biased O-OFDM (DCO-OFDM) and asymmetrically clipped O-OFDM are two modern O-OFDM systems that operate with IM-DD constraints (ACO-OFDM). Due to severe out of band interference, the DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM systems have a high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and substantial adjacent channel interference (ACI) (OOB). Furthermore, as compared to bipolar OFDM systems, they obtain a greater chance of bit error. The combination of the STC scheme, symbol extension, and pulse shaping signal is presented in this paper for improving the performance of the O-OFDM system without affecting system throughput. This article also decreases the OOB, PAPR, and bit error rate (BER) of DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM systems. Further analytical analyses for the proposed systems, such as OOB, PAPR, and computing complexity, are obtained in this paper. The simulation results verify the analytical study of the proposed methods for OOB reduction and PAPR reduction. As compared to typical O-OFDM systems, the proposed shaped STC-DCO-OFDM scheme and the proposed shaped STC-ACO-OFDM scheme lower the OOB by about 40 dB and the PAPR by about 4 dB at the 10− 3 probability point of the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF). The proposed systems outperform existing O-OFDM systems under AWGN for the BPSK modulation scheme in terms of BER, and reduce the computational complexity.