“…To obtain unipolar OFDM without any loss of information, there are several derivatives of OFDM, including asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM) [12,13], DC biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) [12,[14][15][16], and pulse amplitude modulated discrete multitone modulation (PAM-DMT) [17,18]. In addition, there are some hybrid forms of OFDM such as asymmetrically clipped DC-biased optical OFDM (ADO-OFDM) [12,16], hybrid asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (HNC-OFDM) [16], hybrid asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM (HACO-OFDM) [19], hybrid diversity combined OFDM (HDC-OFDM) [16,20], asymmetrical hybrid optical OFDM (AHO) [21], hybrid DC biased asymmetrically clipped pulse amplitude modulated discrete multitone modulation optical OFDM (HDAP-OFDM) [22], and pulse amplitude-modulated hybrid optical OFDM (PHO-OFDM) [23]. In the rest of the paper, the terms ACO-OFDM, DCO-OFDM, AHO-OFDM, HACO-OFDM, HDAP-OFDM, and PHO-OFDM are simplified as ACO, DCO, AHO, HACO, HDAP, and PHO, respectively.…”