Transmission of 344 Gb/s 16-QAM Using a Simplified Coherent Receiver Based on Single-Ended Detection

We demonstrate a single-wavelength, 344-Gb/s, 43-Gb 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) polarization division multiplexed signal transmission over 800 km operating below the hard-decision forward error correction (FEC) BER threshold of 3.8 &#x00D7; 10<sup>-3</sup> using an InP d...

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Main Authors: Thang M. Hoang, Mohammed Y. S. Sowailem, Mohamed Morsy-Osman, Mathieu Chagnon, David Patel, Stephane Paquet, Carl Paquet, Ian Woods, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, David Plant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2016-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7482680/