Title :
Performance investigation of polarization-multiplexed 16-QAM using all-optical OFDM transmission and digital coherent detection
Author :
Wang, Zhenxing ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Ip, Ezra ; Prucnal, PAul R. ; Wang, Ting
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We generated a 500-Gb/s AO-OFDM signal with DP-16QAM modulating each subcarrier and detected the signal using coherent detection. We investigated the effects of DSP oversampling and receiver bandwidth using experimental results and numerical simulations.
Keywords :
numerical analysis; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical signal detection; quadrature amplitude modulation; DSP; all-optical OFDM transmission; bit rate 500 Gbit/s; digital coherent detection; numerical simulations; polarization-multiplexed 16-QAM; receiver bandwidth; signal detection; Bandwidth; Digital signal processing; Integrated optics; OFDM; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
