Phase Noise on Coherent Optical OFDM Systems with 16-QAM and 64-QAM beyond 10 Gb/s

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Yi, Xingwen; Ma, Yiran (Victoria Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia)
Shieh, William (ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia)

Abstract:
We present the experimental transmission results of coherent optical OFDM systems with 16-QAM and 64-QAM formats. Phase noise effects from laser linewidth and non-linear fibre transmission are investigated.