Transmission of 344 Gb/s 16-QAM Using a Simplified Coherent Receiver Based on Single-Ended Detection

Autor: Thang M. Hoang, Mohammed Y. S. Sowailem, Mohamed Morsy-Osman, Mathieu Chagnon, David Patel, Stephane Paquet, Carl Paquet, Ian Woods, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, David Plant
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 1-8 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2574738
Popis: We demonstrate a single-wavelength, 344-Gb/s, 43-Gb 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) polarization division multiplexed signal transmission over 800 km operating below the hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) BER threshold of 3.8 × 10-3 using an InP dual-polarization in-phase/quadrature modulator. At the receiver, a simplified single-ended coherent receiver with novel digital signal processing (DSP) for self-beating noise removal is employed. Compared with the conventional single-ended detection, this signal processing method doubles the propagation distance and increases the SNR by more than 1 dB. In addition, this DSP method provides 10 dB of the received optical power dynamic range while operating below the hard-FEC BER threshold of 3.8 × 10-3, compared with the no dynamic range for a single-ended receiver without the proposed DSP.
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