• DocumentCode
    161049
  • Title

    Experimental comparison of two 8-QAM constellations at 200 Gb/s over ultra long-haul transmission link

  • Author

    Rios-Muller, R. ; Renaudier, Jeremie ; Tran, P. ; Charlet, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs. Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report on the non-linear performance comparison between two 8QAM modulation formats using Nyquist pulse shaping. Although less tolerant to phase noise and frequency detuning, we show that the Circular-8QAM format outperforms the Star-8QAM by 0.5 dB after transmission.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical modulation; phase noise; quadrature amplitude modulation; 8-QAM constellations; Nyquist pulse shaping; bit rate 200 Gbit/s; circular-8QAM format; frequency detuning; nonlinear performance comparison; phase noise; star-8QAM; ultra long-haul transmission link; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Modulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Phase estimation; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963879
  • Filename
    6963879