Adaptive symbol discrimination for optical multilevel signal distorted in a constellation map is proposed. A 50-Gb/s 16-level optical quadrature amplitude modulation signal is demodulated with a bit error rate less than forward error correction limit.
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Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Date of Conference: 24-28 Feb. 2008