Abstract:High peaktoaverage power ratio (PAPR) is a major shortcoming of optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OOFDM) system. The selective mapping (SLM) technology can effectively reduce the probability of high PAPR, but it has high computational complexity. Some lowcomplexity SLM schemes can effectively reduce the complexity, but reduce the PAPR reduction performance. In order to balance the above two factors, a jointimproved PAPR reduction scheme which combines a lowcomplexity SLM scheme with the idea of suboptimal selection is proposed. In the lowcomplexity scheme, through separating one complex signal into two real signals and utilizing the reversal and circular shift properties of fast Fourier transform (FFT) to reconstruct the new candidates, more candidate signals can be obtained. Thus the computational complexity can be reduced. Then, combining with the idea of suboptimal selection, the lowest PAPR is selected to obtain the optimized PAPR reduction performance. Simulation results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.