Title :
Nonlinearity-tolerant frequency domain root M-shaped pulse for spectrally efficient coherent transmissions
Author :
Xian Xu ; Zhuge, Qunbi ; Chatelain, Benoit ; Meng Qiu ; Chagnon, Mathieu ; Morsy-Osman, Mohamed ; Wei Wang ; Plant, David V.
Author_Institution :
McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A frequency domain M-shaped pulse with roll-off factors less than 1 is proposed and experimentally demonstrated to achieve a better nonlinearity tolerance than the RRC pulse for both PDM-QPSK and PDM-16QAM transmission systems.
Keywords :
multiplexing; optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-16QAM; PDM-QPSK; RRC pulse; frequency domain M-shaped pulse; spectrally efficient coherent transmissions; transmission systems; Band-pass filters; Bit error rate; Frequency-domain analysis; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Receivers; 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.W1G.3
