Single-carrier 800-Gb/s 32 RZ/QAM coherent transmission over 225 km employing a novel RZ-CW conversion technique

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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 languageEnglish
Article number2180373
Pages (from-to)416-418
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume24
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Coherent receiver
  • Coherent transmission
  • Homodyne detection
  • Optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM)
  • Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)
  • Time-division demultiplexing

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