Title :
Experimental study of M-QAM constellation options for short-reach dual-polarization optical OFDM with direct detection
Author :
Siamak Amiralizadeh;Chul Soo Park;Leslie A. Rusch
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., COPL, Université
Abstract :
We find optimized M-QAM constellations for short-reach DDO-OFDM using an iterative gradient-search method and evaluate their performance. With the optimized constellations, capacity is increased by 12 Gb/s compared to square constellation achieving data rate of 168 Gb/s for 16-QAM.
Keywords :
"OFDM","Quadrature amplitude modulation","Optical fiber polarization","Yttrium","Forward error correction","Optical attenuators","Fading"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341762
