Abstract
Abstract We experimentally demonstrate the generation of polarization-division-multiplexing quadrature-phase-shift-keying (PDM-QPSK) modulated vector signal adopting Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based (MZM-based) optical-carrier-suppression (OCS) intensity modulation and direct detection. The MZM is driven by a 6-GHz precoded vector signal carrying 2-Gbaud QPSK transmitter data, and biased at its minimum transmission point to realize OCS modulation. The phase of the 6-GHz precoded vector signal is 1/2 of that of the regular QPSK symbol. Only one polarization beam splitter (PBS) is needed to implement optical polarization diversity. The bit-error rate (BER) for the 2-Gbaud PDM-QPSK modulated vector signal can reach the hard-decision forward-error-correction (HD-FEC) threshold of 3.8×10-3 after 80-km single-mode fiber-28 (SMF-28) transmission in the presence of optical dispersion compensation, and 80-km SMF-28 transmission causes no power penalty.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 20319 |
| Pages (from-to) | 538-542 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Optics Communications |
| Volume | 355 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Jul 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Intensity modulation and direct detection
- Optical carrier suppression (OCS)
- Phase precoding
- Photonic vector signal generation
- Polarization multiplexing
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