• DocumentCode
    3701068
  • Title

    Experimental study of M-QAM constellation options for short-reach dual-polarization optical OFDM with direct detection

  • Author

    Siamak Amiralizadeh;Chul Soo Park;Leslie A. Rusch

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Dept., COPL, Université
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We find optimized M-QAM constellations for short-reach DDO-OFDM using an iterative gradient-search method and evaluate their performance. With the optimized constellations, capacity is increased by 12 Gb/s compared to square constellation achieving data rate of 168 Gb/s for 16-QAM.
  • Keywords
    "OFDM","Quadrature amplitude modulation","Optical fiber polarization","Yttrium","Forward error correction","Optical attenuators","Fading"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341762
  • Filename
    7341762