Flexible Transmission Enabled by Novel M2-QAM Formats with Record Distance - Spectral Efficiency Tuneability

11 March 2018

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We propose a variable M2-QAM format and coding scheme and demonstrate record distance â€" spectral efficiency tuneability by 6.4 bit/s/Hz and Î"L≈18x, respectively, at 400 and 600 Gb/s per carrier and report record terrestrial reach for high spectral efficient up to 256QAM.