Abstract

We numerically simulate and experimentally demonstrate an approach to potentially enhance the performance of a high-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) channel by adding correlated data to other robust binary-phase-shift-keyed (BPSK) or quadrature-phase-shift-keyed (QPSK) channels. The correlated data are introduced by optically multiplying the BPSK or QPSK channels, already modulated with their own data, by the target high-order QAM data of the same baud rate. After joint detection and signal processing, a $\sim 3\mathrm{dB}$ optical signal-to-noise (OSNR) improvement is observed in simulations by comparing the performance of the target QAM channel (from 4QAM to 256QAM) with and without the use of channel correlation. We also experimentally demonstrate the scheme for a QPSK or a 16QAM target channel using BPSK correlated channels. A $\ge 2\mathrm{dB}$ OSNR improvement is observed.

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