Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 15, Pages 2621-2628Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2271634
Keywords
Agile optical network; coherent optical communication; digital signal processing; flexible transceiver; hybrid QAM; spectral efficiency
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We report the transmission of time domain hybrid QAM (TDHQ) signals for agile optical networks. A continuous tradeoff between spectral efficiency and achievable distance by mixing modulation formats including QPSK, 8QAM, and 16QAM is demonstrated in two scenarios: 1) 28 Gbaud non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal for fixed 50 GHz grid systems; 2) superchannel transmission at date rates of up to 1.15 Tb/s and spectral efficiencies of up to 7.68 b/s/Hz. The TDHQ signal is generated using high-speed digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at the transmitter, and low-complexity digital signal processing (DSP) is proposed for processing the TDHQ signals at the receiver. Moreover, the nonlinearity tolerance of hybrid QAM signals with different configurations is investigated.
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