Title :
Experimental optical tunable phase-coherent multiplexing of four 20-Gbaud OOK signals into a single 80-Gbit/s 16-QAM and star 16-QAM signal
Author :
Bakhtiari, Zahra ; Chitgarha, Mohammad R. ; Khaleghi, Salman ; Ziyadi, Morteza ; Ma, Zichen ; Paraschis, Loukas ; Langrock, Carsten ; Fejer, Martin M. ; Hellwarth, Robert W. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrated optical tunable phase-coherent multiplexing of four 20-Gbit/s OOK channels at different wavelengths into a single 80-Gbit/s 16-QAM channel and also a single star 16-QAM channel using PPLN devices.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; multiplexing; optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; OOK signals; PPLN devices; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; on-off keying; optical tunable phase coherent multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; star 16-QAM signal; Multiplexing; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
