• DocumentCode
    161643
  • Title

    Constant modulus 4D optimized constellation alternative for DP-8QAM

  • Author

    Kojima, Keisuke ; Millar, David S. ; Koike-Akino, Toshiaki ; Parsons, Kieran

  • Author_Institution
    Mitsubishi Electr. Res. Labs., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose a constant modulus 4D format as an alternative to DP-8QAM. It has 0.4dB lower SNR at BER = 10-2, and 1 dB higher span loss budget in nonlinear regime.
  • Keywords
    optical communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; BER; DP-8QAM; SNR; constant modulus 4D optimized constellation; nonlinear regime; span loss budget; Bit error rate; Optical losses; Phase shift keying; Sensitivity; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964188
  • Filename
    6964188