All-ETDM 80-Gbaud (640-Gb/s) PDM 16-QAM Generation and Coherent Detection

Author

Raybon, Gregory ; Adamiecki, Andrew L. ; Randel, Sebastian ; Schmidt, Christian ; Winzer, Peter J. ; Konczykowska, Agnieszka ; Jorge, Filipe ; Dupuy, Jean-Yves ; Buhl, Larry L. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Liu, Xiang ; Gnauck, Alan H. ; Scholz, Christopher ; Del

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

24

Issue

15

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1328

Lastpage

1330

Abstract

A single-carrier 640-Gb/s polarization-division multiplexed 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation signal is generated using electronic multiplexing to 80 Gbaud. Coherent detection and off-line signal processing equalize the limited bandwidth of the transmit and receive hardware.

Keywords

optical receivers; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; time division multiplexing; 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation signal; all-ETDM 80-Gbaud PDM 16-QAM generation; bit rate 640 Gbit/s; coherent detection; electronic multiplexing; off-line signal processing; receive hardware; single-carrier polarization-division multiplexing; transmit hardware; Bandwidth; Multiplexing; Optical attenuators; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio; Coherent communications; fiber optic links;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2203118

Filename

6213503