title: 100G and 200G single carrier transmission over 2880 and 320 km using an InP IQ modulator and Stokes vector receiver.
abstract: We demonstrate experimentally the transmission of single carrier 56 Gbaud 16-QAM, 8-QAM and QPSK optically modulated signals over 320, 960 and 2,880 km, respectively, using a fully packaged InP IQ modulator and a Stokes vector direct detection (SV-DD) receiver realized using discrete optics. Results show that by optimizing the carrier-to-signal-power ratio, the total throughput-times-distance product for 16 QAM and QPSK are 71,680 Gbps.km and 322,560 Gbps.km, respectively, at bit error rate (BER) below the hard decision forward error correcting threshold (HD-FEC) of 4.5 × 10-3.
authors.forename: Mohammed Y S
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Sowailem
authors.forename: Thang M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Hoang
authors.forename: Mathieu
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authors.lastname: Chagnon
authors.forename: Mohamed
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authors.lastname: Morsy-Osman
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Stephane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paquet
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Paquet
authors.forename: Ian
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authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: Odile
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authors.lastname: Liboiron-Ladouceur
authors.forename: David V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Plant