• DocumentCode
    2158119
  • Title

    Simultaneous waveform and bit-error-rate measurements of 66 GBd PDM-16-QAM signals

  • Author

    Sköld, Mats ; Sunnerud, Henrik ; Westlund, Mathias ; Andrekson, Peter A.

  • Author_Institution
    EXFO Sweden AB, Göteborg, Sweden
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate waveform analysis and BER measurements of a PDM-NRZ-16-QAM signal at a record base symbol rate using asynchronous optical under-sampling. A BER below the FEC limit was achieved at 528 Gbit/s.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; multiplexing; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; waveform analysis; BER measurement; FEC limit; PDM-NRZ-16-QAM signal; asynchronous optical under-sampling; base symbol rate; bit rate 528 Gbit/s; bit-error-rate measurement; polarization division multiplexing; waveform analysis; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065931