DocumentCode
2842095
Title
16 QAM synthesis by angular superposition of polarization using dual-polarization QPSK modulator
Author
Morohashi, Isao ; Sudo, Masaaki ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Chiba, Akito ; Ichikawa, Junichiro ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
fYear
2010
fDate
19-23 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We propose a polarization-multiplexing QPSK modulator for 16 QAM generation. 16 QAM is synthesized from two QPSK signals with orthogonal polarization by a polarizer. Generation of 40 Gb/s 16 QAM with the BER of 8.13×10-6 was demonstrated.
Keywords
error statistics; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 16 QAM generation; QAM synthesis; QPSK signal; angular superposition; bit error rate; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; dual-polarization QPSK modulator; orthogonal polarization; polarization-multiplexing QPSK modulator; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Torino
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8534-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621090
Filename
5621090
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