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Design and Implementation of an Optical

OFDM Base band receiver in FPGA
Project work by
S Radha
III Sem M Tech
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Introduction
In past optical fibre networks PON rely on a simple
NRZ modulation scheme
Speed is increased 10 Gbps
To meet high bandwidth demand OFDM technique
has been considered in the development of the next
generation of PON
The signal is transmitted single mode fibre, the max
transmission length is confined to 25 Kms.
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Project scope
For optical modulator either EM or IM technique used
Two approaches at the receiving end - Coherent
detection and Direct detections
IM technique features low cost
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Project scope
Real valued FFT model and Hermitian spectrum is
also developed to reduce circuit complexity
The transmission bandwidth for 64 QAM coded OFDM
symbols over 25 Kms long single mode fibre network


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OOFDM packet format











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8 way parallel baseband
receiver design











Packet and symbol boundary detection
First order IIR filter structure is used and throughput
of 4 Gsps is adopted
Real valued FFT computing kernel
Develop a butterfly network consisting of purely real
valued computation and Hermitian
4 butterfly models are employed in each stage for 8
way parallel computing.
Sampling frequency offset compensation
For SFO estimation, the phase difference between
two colocated tones are suffix

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8 way parallel baseband
receiver design











Zero force channel equalizer
8 complex valued dividers are used to meet the
throughput requirement