Improved Receivers for Asymmetrically-Clipped Optical OFDM

In this paper, we propose two novel receiver designs for asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM). The first one, termed 'Proposed Receiver I', exploits the structure of the clipping noise which improves the power efficiency over the state-of-the-art ACO-OFDM receiver. The second one, termed 'Proposed Receiver II', exploits the benefit of bit error correction which achieves a further improvement over the state-of-the-art ACO-OFDM receiver at the expense of computational complexity.