Title :
Information rates for the SP 128-QAM and DP 16-QAM modulation formats
Author :
A. S. Kashi;J. C. Cartledge;A. Bakhshali;A. Rezania;A. I. Abd El-Rahman;M. O´Sullivan;C. Laperle;A. Borowiec;K. Roberts
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen´s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Information rates for the set-partitioning (SP) 128-QAM and dual-polarization (DP) 16-QAM modulation formats are compared for the same bit rate (256 Gbit/s) and baud rate (32 Gbaud). For 256 Gbit/s transmission over 3600 km, SP 128-QAM offers an increase of 8.2%.
Keywords :
"Information rates","Modulation","Bit error rate","Optical noise","Signal to noise ratio","Optical fibers","Optical fiber dispersion"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341640
