Abstract

We demonstrate a reconfigurable optical transmitter of higher-order modulation formats including pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM) signals and quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM) signals. We generated six different modulation formats by multiplexing $10\mathrm{Gbit}/\mathrm{s}$ on–off-keying (OOK) signals (10 Gbaud binary phase-shift keying, 4-PAM, 8-PAM quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), 16-QAM and 16-star-QAM with error-vector magnitudes (EVMs) of 8.1%, 7.5%, 7.8%, 8.2%, 7.2%, and 6.9%, respectively) and $80\mathrm{Gbit}/\mathrm{s}$ 16-QAM with an EVM of 8.5%, as well as $120\mathrm{Gbit}/\mathrm{s}$ 64-QAM with an EVM of 7.1%, using two or three $40\mathrm{Gbit}/\mathrm{s}$ QPSK signals, respectively. We also successfully transmitted the generated 16-QAM signals through a 100 km transmission line with negligible power penalty.

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