Title : 
ADC resolution requirement for DA-ML phase estimation QPSK optical coherent receiver
         
        
            Author : 
Yuanwei Fan ; Jian Chen ; Changyuan Yu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Infocomm Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Nanjing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We investigate the ADC resolution requirement for DA-ML phase estimation QPSK optical coherent receiver. Simulation results show that 5 bit ADC resolution is sufficient for accurate detection with less than 0.2 dB SNR penalty.
         
        
            Keywords : 
analogue-digital conversion; maximum likelihood estimation; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; ADC resolution; DA-ML phase estimation; QPSK; SNR penalty; optical coherent receiver; word length 5 bit; Bit error rate; Optical polarization; Phase noise; Quantization (signal); Receivers; Signal resolution; Signal to noise ratio;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Melbourne, VIC