Title :
Energy efficient modulation formats for multi-core fibers
Author :
Puttnam, B.J. ; Mendinueta, J.-M Delgado ; Luis, Ruben S. ; Klaus, Werner ; Sakaguchi, Jun ; Awaji, Y. ; Wada, N. ; Eriksson, Tobias A. ; Agrell, Erik ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Karlsson, Magnus
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network Syst. Lab., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol. (NICT), Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally investigate a family of multi-dimensional modulation formats for multi-core-fibers. Such formats can have power or spectral efficiency advantages or lower symbol energies but implementation difficulties cause an OSNR penalty.
Keywords :
modulation; optical fibre communication; optical noise; OSNR penalty; energy efficient modulation formats; multicore fibers; power efficiency; spectral efficiency; symbol energies; Binary phase shift keying; Multicore processing; Optical noise; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
