Title : 
Comparison of set-partitioned two-polarization 16QAM formats with PDM-QPSK and PDM-8QAM for optical transmission systems with error-correction coding
         
        
            Author : 
Renaudier, Jeremie ; Voicila, A. ; Bertran-Pardo, Oriol ; Rival, Olivier ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Charlet, G. ; Bigo, S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We compare set partitioned two-polarization 16QAM formats with conventional PDM-QPSK and PDM-8QAM formats by considering error correction coding. We particularly show that 128SP-16QAM appear as a competitive alternative to PDM-8QAM for spectrally efficient (>4 b/s/Hz) optical transmission systems using forward error-correction coding.
         
        
            Keywords : 
error correction codes; forward error correction; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 128SP-16QAM; 16QAM formats; PDM-8QAM; PDM-QPSK; forward error-correction coding; optical transmission systems; set-partitioned two-polarization; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Optical imaging; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Phase shift keying; Signal to noise ratio;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Amsterdam