Abstract
We demonstrate the first real-time adaptive optical coherent QAM transmission with variable multiplicities (4-, 16- and 64-QAM) using an FPGA-based transmitter and receiver. Rate-variable transmission (20∼60 Gbit/s) was successfully achieved with a polarization multiplexing scheme at 5 Gsymbol/s over 320 km, where the OSNR margins were increased by 9 and 17 dB, respectively, by changing the modulation level from 64 to 16 and 4.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 16520-16527 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Jun 30 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics