Title :
High-bit-rate optical QAM
Author :
Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei
Abstract :
We review electro-optic synthesis of high-speed and high-spectral-efficient optical QAM, where a multi-parallel MZM is utilized. It is shown that QAM and other multi-level formats are synthesized superposing BPSK signals.
Keywords :
electro-optical devices; optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; electro-optic synthesis; high-bit-rate optical QAM; high-spectral-efficient optical QAM; high-speed optical QAM; multiparallel MZM; Binary phase shift keying; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Phase shift keying; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal processing; Signal synthesis; (060.1660) Coherent communications; (060.4510) Optical communications;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2606-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-865-0
