Transmission and reception of PDM dual-subcarrier coherent 16QAM-OFDM signals

Fan Li*, Junwen Zhang, Jianjun Yu, Xinying Li

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Abstract

In this paper, 16-Gbaud polarization-division-multiplexed (PDM) dual-subcarrier coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) transmission and reception are successfully demonstrated without overhead. The in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) components of dual-subcarrier 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) OFDM signal are both seven-level signals in time domain, and thus can be equalized like a 49 QAM signal in time domain with cascaded multi-modulus algorithm (CMMA) equalization method. The experimental results show that there is no power penalty observed between optical back to back (OBTB) and after 80-km single-mode fiber-28 (SMF-28) with time domain CMMA equalization method. A 0.4 dB optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) penalty in OBTB is observed when the bandwidth of channel is set at 26 GHz at the BER of 2.0 × 10-2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)201-205
Number of pages5
JournalOptical Fiber Technology
Volume26
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • 49QAM
  • Coherent detection
  • Dual-subcarrier 16QAM
  • OFDM

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