Abstract
We report the single-carrier 800-Gb/s coherent transmission of polarization-multiplexed 32 return-to-zero (RZ)/quadrature amplitude modulation signals at 10 Gsymbol/s × 8 optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM). Transmission over 225 km was achieved by adopting an RZ-continuous-wave conversion scheme in a coherent receiver, which made it possible to demodulate and demultiplex ultra high-speed multilevel OTDM signals with a high signal-to-noise ratio.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2180373 |
Pages (from-to) | 416-418 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Coherent receiver
- Coherent transmission
- Homodyne detection
- Optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM)
- Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)
- Time-division demultiplexing