Title :
Study of multicarrier Offset-QAM for spectrally efficient coherent optical communications
Author :
Randel, Sebastian ; Sierra, Alberto ; Liu, Xiang ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Winzer, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Multicarrier Offset-QAM is proposed as a spectrally efficient scheme for highspeed coherent optical communication systems. Low penalties are found with symbol-rate spacing in a back-to-back experiment. The scheme can be implemented with low complexity.
Keywords :
optical communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; highspeed coherent optical communication systems; multicarrier offset-QAM; spectrally efficient coherent optical communications; symbol-rate spacing; Crosstalk; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical pulse shaping; Optical receivers; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
