Title :
50-km SMF transmission of 50-Gb/s 16 QAM generated by quad-parallel MZM
Author :
Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei
Abstract :
We investigated transmission of 50 Gb/s 16 QAM over 50 km SMF. 16 QAM was electro-optically synthesized with a quad-parallel MZM; demodulated by off-line digital homodyne employing electric equalizers.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical devices; equalisers; modulators; quadrature amplitude modulation; QAM generation; SMF transmission; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; electric equalizers; electrooptically synthesis; off-line digital homodyne; quad-parallel MZM; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729192
