Monthly Archives: September 2010

catching up on XPolM

Well, it’s been a few months since the OFC this year, but I had so many ideas on OFDM that I wanted to get online that I kinda com­pletely missed the new papers on cross-polarization mod­u­la­tion that came out this year. A very inter­est­ing read (I wasn’t at OFC myself) was Non­lin­ear Polar­iza­tion Effects and

Optical OFDM – Generation

Before we go fur­ther into the sig­nal pro­cess­ing top­ics that started with the cyclic pre­fix, we shall take a look at how we can gen­er­ate OFDM sig­nals ready for trans­mis­sion and then, next, how to get them into the fiber. By now you should have a firm grasp on what an OFDM sig­nal is. If

pictures from Paris

Here are some pic­tures from our recent week­end trip to Paris. We had a great time (although my legs still hurt two days after we were back from all the walk­ing around) and were very lucky with the weather. I can only rec­om­mend a trip there for any­one who has not seen it yet. You