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4 Abbreviations and acronyms

This Supplement uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:
AC Asymmetric Clipping

ACC Automatic Current Control
A/D Analog to Digital

ADC A/D Converter
APD Avalanche PhotoDdode
ASE Amplified Spontaneous Emission

AWG Arbitrary Waveform Generator
BB Baseband Block

BB M/dMP Baseband Modulation and demodulation Processor
BBU Baseband Unit
BEP/FEP Back-End Processor and Front-End Processor

BER Bit Error Ratio
BPF Bandpass Filter

BS Base Station
BtB Back-to-Back

CA Carrier Aggregation
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

C-RAN Centralized Radio Access Network
CWDM Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
D/A Digital to Analog

DAC D/A Converter
DC Direct Current

DCO Down-Converter-Offset OFDM
DEMUX Demultiplexer
DFB-LD Distributed Feedback Laser Diode

DML Directly Modulated Laser
DMT Discrete Multi-Tone

D-RoF Digitized Radio over Fibre
DSP Digital Signal Processing

DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
E-BTB Electrical Back-To-Back

EDFA Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier
E/O Electrical to Optical
E-UTRA Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access

EVM Error Vector Magnitude

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