• DocumentCode
    3687948
  • Title

    BICM capacity analysis of 8QAM-alternative modulation formats in nonlinear fiber transmission

  • Author

    Keisuke Kojima;Toshiaki Koike-Akino;David S. Millar;Kieran Parsons

  • Author_Institution
    Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139-1955, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    57
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    We investigate the nonlinear performance of 8QAM-alternative 4D modulation format using GMI to evaluate the BICM capacity. Due to its constant modulus feature, the 4D-2A8PSK modulation has higher nonlinear threshold than Star-8QAM and Circular-8QAM.
  • Keywords
    "Signal to noise ratio","Bit error rate","Optical losses","Phase shift keying","Optical fiber communication","Nonlinear optics"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Digital Communications (TIWDC), 2015 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIWDC.2015.7323337
  • Filename
    7323337