• DocumentCode
    712745
  • Title

    Experimental investigation of a four-dimensional 256-ary lattice-based modulation format

  • Author

    Eriksson, Tobias A. ; Alreesh, Saleem ; Schmidt-Langhorst, Carsten ; Frey, Felix ; Berenguer, Pablo Wilke ; Schubert, Colja ; Fischer, Johannes K. ; Andrekson, Peter A. ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Agrell, Erik

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A four-dimensional modulation format with 256 point from the D4-lattice (256-D4) is compared to PM-16QAM in experiments. 256-D4 is more sensitive at high OSNR but with a 21.3% overhead turbo product code, PM-16QAM outperforms 256-D4.
  • Keywords
    product codes; quadrature amplitude modulation; turbo codes; wavelength division multiplexing; 256-D4 format; PM-16QAM; WDM long-haul transmission; four-dimensional 256-ary lattice-based modulation format; overhead turbo product code; Bit error rate; Gain; Modulation; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Sensitivity; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7122133