• DocumentCode
    2238401
  • Title

    Demonstration of 10–40-Gbaud baud-rate-tunable optical generation of 16-QAM from a QPSK signal using a variable DGD element

  • Author

    Bakhtiari, Zahra ; Wang, Jian ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Hellwarth, Robert W. ; Willner, Alan E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate a tunable optical generation of up to 40-Gbaud 16- QAM from a QPSK signal using a variable DGD element based on vector addition between two polarization states. We also show the baud rate tunability and investigate the tolerance of 16-QAM generation to the DGD offset.
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; optical pulse generation; optical tuning; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; QAM; QPSK signal; baud rate tunability; baud-rate-tunable optical generation; differential-group-delay; polarization states; variable DGD element; vector addition; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950549