Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2012.2203118
