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Heterodyne coherent detection of WDM PDMQPSK signals with spectral efficiency of 4b/s/Hz

  • Xinying Li*
  • , Ze Dong
  • , Jianjun Yu
  • , Jianguo Yu
  • , Nan Chi
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Fudan University
  • ZTE Corporation
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate heterodyne coherent detection of 8 × 112-Gb/s ultra-density wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) polarization-division-multiplexing quadrature-phase-shift-keying (PDMQPSK) signal after 1120-km single-mode fiber-28 (SMF-28) transmission. The spectral efficiency (SE) is 4b/s/Hz. It is the first time to realize WDM signal transmission with high SE by adopting heterodyne coherent detection. At the heterodyne coherent receiver, intermediate frequency (IF) down conversion is realized in digital frequency domain after analog-todigital conversion. A digital post filter and 1-bit maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) adopted after carrier phase estimation (CPE) in the conventional digital-signal-processing (DSP) process is used to suppress the enhanced noise and crosstalk as well as overcome the filtering effects. The bit-error ratio (BER) for all channels is under the forwarderror-correction (FEC) limit of 3.8 × 10-3 after 1120-km SMF-28 transmission.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8808-8814
Number of pages7
JournalOptics Express
Volume21
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Apr 2013
Externally publishedYes

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