Abstract
The phase noise induced by the intra-channel nonlinearity with DP-16QAM is found to be higher than that with DP-QPSK in 1600km transmission experiments. The main reason is identified as the large IXPM in 16QAM based on the proposed nonlinear model.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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