As 100-Gb/s digital coherent systems enter commercial deployment, an effort is underway to
uncover the technologies that will enable the next-generation optical fiber communication …

We overview the requirements and the enabling technologies for optical transmission
systems up to 100 Gb/s and beyond. Polarization-division multiplexed quadrature phase …

Conventionally, fiber-optic communication networks are experiencing rapidly increasing
growth of capacity. This capacity growth is reflected by individual channel data rate scaling …

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Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the technology challenges for the
implementation of future high-capacity systems incorporating channels at bit rates of 100 …

To address the new requirements on optical networks imposed by the upcoming fifth-
generation wireless (5G), such as high bandwidth, low latency, accurate synchronization …

Coherent optical fiber communications for data rates of 100Gbit/s and beyond have recently
been studied extensively primarily because high sensitivity of coherent receivers could …

Field modulation with coherent detection leverages the use of optical channel bandwidth
and allows mitigating transmission impairments by exploiting the two quadrature …

The achievable information rates of optical communication networks have been widely
increased over the past four decades with the introduction and development of optical …

Advanced optical modulation formats have become a key ingredient to the design of modern
wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) optically routed networks. In this paper, we review …