Title :
Time-division hybrid modulation formats: Tx operation strategies and countermeasures to nonlinear propagation
Author :
Curri, Vittorio ; Carena, Andrea ; Poggiolini, Pierluigi ; Cigliutti, R. ; Forghieri, Fabrizio ; Fludger, C. ; Kupfer, Theo
Author_Institution :
DET, Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy
Abstract :
We propose four strategies for TDHMF Tx operation. BER minimization permits PM-QPSK/PM-16QAM performance similar to PM-8QAM´s. In TDHMF nonlinear propagation, predistortion and/or polarization interleaving enables the maximum reach predicted by GN-model.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; BER minimization; PM-16QAM; PM-QPSK; nonlinear propagation countermeasure; time division hybrid modulation format; transmit operation strategy; Bit error rate; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Predistortion; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu3A.2
