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

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

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2574738

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2016)

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

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

Affiliations

Thang M. Hoang: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mohammed Y. S. Sowailem: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mohamed Morsy-Osman: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mathieu Chagnon: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
David Patel: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Stephane Paquet: TeraXion, Inc., Einstein, QC, Canada
Carl Paquet: TeraXion, Inc., Einstein, QC, Canada
Ian Woods: TeraXion, Inc., Einstein, QC, Canada
Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
David Plant: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2016.2574738
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 3
pp. 1 – 8

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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 × 10-3 using an InP dual-polarization in-phase/quadrature modulator. At the receiver, a simplified single-ended coherent receiver with novel digital signal processing (DSP) for self-beating noise removal is employed. Compared with the conventional single-ended detection, this signal processing method doubles the propagation distance and increases the SNR by more than 1 dB. In addition, this DSP method provides 10 dB of the received optical power dynamic range while operating below the hard-FEC BER threshold of 3.8 × 10-3, compared with the no dynamic range for a single-ended receiver without the proposed DSP.

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ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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