Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel synthesizing method for high-speed 8-ary quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) optical signal generation using commercial optical modulators with binary electrical driving signals. Using this method, we successfully generated 114-Gb/s pulse-duration modulation (PDM)-8QAM optical signals. Intradyne detection of PDM-8QAM optical signals with robust blind polarization demultiplexing has been demonstrated by using a new cascaded multimodulus equalization algorithm. With return-to-zero-shaped PDM-8QAM modulation and the proposed blind polarization demultiplexing algorithm, we demonstrate transmission of a record 32-Tb/s fiber capacity (320 × 114 Gb/s) over 580 km of ultralow-loss single-mode fiber-28 fiber by utilizing C + L-band erbium-doped fiber-amplifier-only optical amplification and single-ended coherent detection technique at an information spectral efficiency of 4.0 bit/s·Hz.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 456-465 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 15 2010 |
Keywords
- 8-phase-shift keying (PSK)
- coherent
- digital
- fiber
- modulation format
- optical transmission
- spectral efficiency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics