• DocumentCode
    3700929
  • Title

    Modulation order and code rate optimisation for digital coherent transceivers using generalised mutual information

  • Author

    Robert Maher;Alex Alvarado;Domanic Lavery;Polina Bayvel

  • Author_Institution
    Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic &
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate that generalised mutual information can be used as a design rule to select the optimal modulation order and code rate for SNR limited DP-mQAM transceivers. FEC overheads between 9% and 194% are shown to maximise spectral efficiency.
  • Keywords
    "Signal to noise ratio","Transceivers","Optical polarization","Optical receivers","Quadrature amplitude modulation","Optical modulation"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341621
  • Filename
    7341621
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3700929