Extended Reach 10 Gb/s Transmission with an Optical I/Q Modulator Using VCSELs over OFDM-Based Multimode Fiber Link

Table 3

Comparative performance analysis of the proposed work.

Parameter	Proposed DDO-OFDM system	Lowery and Armstrong [8]	Deng et al. [9]
Data rate (Gb/s)	10	10	16.375
MMF	Yes	Yes	Yes
Transmission reach (km)	5	0.3	0.2
I/Q modulation	Yes	No	No
BER (worst case)	6.19635 × 10^−3	~1 × 10^−3	2.3 × 10^−3
factor (worst case)	11.106108	-	-