Abstract
Modulation format identification (MFI) is a critical technology for autonomous digital coherent receivers in next-generation elastic optical networks. A novel and simple MFI scheme, to the best of our knowledge, based on signal envelope flatness is proposed without requiring any training or other prior information. After amplitude normalization and partition, the incoming polarization division multiplexed (PDM) signals can be classified into quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), 8 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), 16QAM, and 64QAM signals according to envelope flatnesses ${{\rm{R}}_1}$, ${{\rm{R}}_2}$, and ${{\rm{R}}_3}$ of signals in different amplitude ranges. The feasibility of the proposed MFI scheme is first verified via numerical simulations with 28 GBaud PDM-QPSK/-8QAM/-16QAM/-64QAM signals. Only by using 4000 symbols can the proposed MFI scheme achieve a 100% correct identification rate for the four modulation formats over a wide optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) range. Proof-of-concept experiments among 28 GBaud PDM-QPSK/-8QAM/-16QAM systems under back-to-back and long-haul fiber transmission links are implemented to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MFI scheme. The experimental results show that the proposed MFI scheme can obtain a 100% correct identification rate when the OSNR value of each modulation format is higher than the threshold corresponding to 7% FEC and is resilient towards fiber nonlinearities. More importantly, the proposed MFI scheme can significantly reduce computational complexity.
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