Title :
Experimental characterisation of QAM16 at symbol rates up to 42Gbaud
Author :
Millar, D.S. ; Makovejs, S. ; Fatadin, I. ; Killey, R.I. ; Bayvel, P. ; Savory, S.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
We experimentally investigate generation and detection of QAM16 at symbol rates up to 42Gbaud. The error floor due to the finite receiver bandwidth and resolution was characterised as a function of baud rate. Transmission over 320km at 35Gbaud is demonstrated.
Keywords :
optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; signal resolution; QAM16; baud rate; finite receiver bandwidth; receiver resolution; symbol rate; Bit error rate; Constellation diagram; Floors; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621300
