PAPR reduction of optical OFDM signals in visible light communications

Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is extensively used in optical communications to achieve high rate transmission. In this paper, Vandermonde like matrix (VLM) pre-coding approach is offered to reduce the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of DC-biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) and asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) signals in visible light communications. The proposed method is compared with Walsh–Hadamard transform (WHT), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and discrete Hartley transform (DHT) pre-coding approaches in terms of PAPR reduction performance. Simulation results indicate that the proposed method effectively reduces the PAPR of an optical signal in both DCO-OFDM and ACO-OFDM techniques. Keywords: PAPR, VLM, DCO-OFDM, ACO-OFDM