Performance comparison of advanced modulation formats for transoceanic coherent systems

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Ivan Fernandez de Jauregui Ruiz, Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi, Rafael Rios-Müller, Patrice Tran

Published: 2017, Last Modified: 06 Feb 2025OFC 2017EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: We experimentally compare the performance of probabilistically-shaped 64QAM (PS64QAM), 64APSK, 64QAM and 32QAM in terms of both SNR and mutual information for transoceanic distances. We show that PS64QAM outperforms all other formats.