Title :
Impact of MAP detection on the mutual information of a 1.2 Tb/s three-carrier DP 16-QAM superchannel
Author :
Rezania, A. ; Kashi, A. ; Cartledge, J.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
For a 1.206 Tb/s three-carrier DP 16-QAM super channel, the mutual information is evaluated without and with fixed look-up table based maximum-a-posteriori detection at the receiver to mitigate pattern-dependent distortion in the transmitted signal.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood estimation; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; MAP detection; bit rate 1.2 Tbit/s; dual-polarization m-ary quadrature-amplitude modulation; look-up table based maximum-a-posteriori detection; mutual information; pattern-dependent distortion mitigation; three-carrier DP 16-QAM super channel; Decision support systems; Handheld computers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
