• DocumentCode
    1793222
  • Title

    Experimental performance of 4D optimized constellation alternatives for PM-8QAM and PM-16QAM

  • Author

    Buelow, Henning ; Xiaofeng Lu ; Schmalen, Laurent ; Klekamp, Axel ; Buchali, Fred

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Sensitivity and reach of soft-decoded PM-8QAM was improved by 1.2-dB and 35%, respectively, by moving to a 64 point 4D constellation and iterative decoding. Replacing PM-16QAM by 256 4D points led to 0.3-dB gain only.
  • Keywords
    iterative decoding; multiplexing; optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; 4D optimized constellation; PM-16QAM; gain 0.3 dB; iterative decoding; polarization multiplexing; soft-decoded PM-8QAM; Bit error rate; Decoding; Iterative decoding; Modulation; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.M2A.6
  • Filename
    6886516