• DocumentCode
    2070548
  • Title

    Nonlinear distortion of 16QAM constellations in intradyne coherent receiver

  • Author

    Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akira ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    22-26 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    We investigate nonlinear distortions of constellations revealed in intradyne receivers for 16QAM signal reception. It is shown that symbols of constellations are circularly spread by impairments of balanced detectors and amplifiers, increasing excess bit errors.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; nonlinear distortion; optical distortion; optical receivers; optical saturation; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16 QAM constellation; balanced amplifier; balanced detector; intradyne coherent receiver; nonlinear distortion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0533-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    Pending
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943130
  • Filename
    5943130