Title :
Flexibility of spectral efficiency by means of power-efficient multidimensional constellations
Author :
Leibrich, Jochen ; Rosenkranz, Werner
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun., Christian-Albrechts-Univ. zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Abstract :
Power-efficient modulation formats are a key technology for optical transport networks. Recently, flexibility of spectral efficiency for efficient utilization of available bandwidth has become a central issue as well. In this contribution, we show that the demand for both flexibility and power efficiency can be fulfilled simultaneously using multidimensional constellations.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; optical transport networks; power-efficient modulation formats; power-efficient multidimensional constellations; spectral efficiency flexibility; Adaptive optics; Integrated optics; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optimization; Vectors; 16-QAM; 8-QAM; Gray penalty; TDHQ; multidimensional constellations;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Graz
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876269
