Research on modified selected mapping technique for PAPR reduction and reception performance improvement in 8QAM-OFDM optical access systems

Background: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing has been regarded as one of the promising technologies for the optical access systems application. However, high peak-to-average power ratio will cause the signal distortion and enable the used amplifier to operate in nonlinear section. Methods: In this paper, a modified selected mapping technique is introduced for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio and enhancing reception performance of the downstream 8QAM-OFDM signals in optical access systems. Results: Compared with the traditional selected mapping technique, the PAPR value of 8QAM-OFDM optical downstream signals with 128 subcarriers is reduced by almost 2 dB using modified SLM when the complementary cumulative distribution function probability value is 10−2. Moreover, the bit error rate performance will be improved, while 10Gbit/s 8QAM-OFDM optical downlink signals are transmitted over single mode fiber with different access length. Conclusions: Hence, the proposed scheme becomes more efficient for the future optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access systems.