Enhanced 16 Spiral quadrature amplitude modulation scheme for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems

Jing He; Chong Li; Lin Chen; Ming Chen

doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.9.096105

9 September 2014 Enhanced 16 Spiral quadrature amplitude modulation scheme for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems

Jing He, Chong Li, Lin Chen, Ming Chen

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 53, Issue 9, 096105 (September 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.9.096105

Abstract

We propose an enhanced 16 Spiral quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) (16 E-Spiral QAM) scheme to overcome the laser phase noise in a coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system. Considering both additive white Gaussian noise and large phase noise, 16 E-Spiral QAM schemes have a better transmission performance compared to conventional 16 QAM CO-OFDM systems. The simulated results show that the required optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) of the proposed 16 QAM is, respectively, 0.8 and 2.3 dB less than 16 Spiral and conventional 16 QAM at a bit error rate (BER) of 10⁻³ in a back-to-back case. After 800-km transmission over a single-mode fiber, the tolerance for the laser linewidth of the 16 E-Spiral QAM can improve about 30 kHz with an OSNR of 18 dB compared to that of a conventional 16 QAM.

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Jing He, Chong Li, Lin Chen, and Ming Chen "Enhanced 16 Spiral quadrature amplitude modulation scheme for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems," Optical Engineering 53(9), 096105 (9 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.9.096105

Published: 9 September 2014

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