Experimental assessment of transmission reach for uncompensated 32-GBaud PDM-QPSK and PDM-16QAM
04 March 2012
We experimentally compare the transmission reach of PDM-16QAM and PDM-QPSK at 32 Gbaud over an uncompensated transmission link and characterize the impact of the hardware limitations stemming from the practical implementation of PDM-16QAM.