• DocumentCode
    3700972
  • Title

    Enabling complex modulation using the frequency chirp of directly modulated lasers

  • Author

    Di Che;Qian Hu;Feng Yuan;William Shieh

  • Author_Institution
    National ICT Australia - Victoria Research Laboratory
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the first complex modulation and detection of PAM-4 and PAM-8 using a directly modulated laser with frequency chirp. Through coherent detection and differential phase assisted Viterbi decoding, PAM-4 system shows >9-dB OSNR sensitivity advantage over the intensity-only decision.
  • Keywords
    "Chirp","Optical transmitters","Digital signal processing","Optical receivers","Frequency modulation","Coherence"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341666
  • Filename
    7341666