Demonstration of multi-rate thresholded preamplified 16-ary pulse-position-modulation

Author

Spellmeyer, N.W. ; Bernstein, S.L. ; Boroson, D.M. ; Caplan, D.O. ; Fletcher, A.S. ; Hamilton, S.A. ; Murphy, R.J. ; Norvig, M. ; Rao, H.G. ; Robinson, B.S. ; Savage, S.J. ; Schulein, R.T. ; Stevens, M.L. ; Wang, J.P.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Sensitive multi-rate optical communication is experimentally investigated on static and fading channels at data rates from 52 Mbps to 311 Mbps using 16-ary pulse-position-modulation, channel coding and interleaving, and a near-optimal thresholded preamplified receiver.

Keywords

channel coding; fading channels; optical modulation; optical receivers; pulse position modulation; bit rate 52 Mbit/s to 311 Mbit/s; channel coding; fading channels; multirate optical communication; multirate thresholded preamplified 16-ary pulse-position-modulation; near-optimal thresholded preamplified receiver; static channels; Fading; High speed optical techniques; Matched filters; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465541