Performance and advantages of 100 Gb/s QPSK/8QAM hybrid modulation formats

We designed and compared time-domain hybrid-modulation formats with adaptive symbol rates and adaptive code rates to optimize the reach of variable grid 100Gb/s systems. Experimental comparisons quantify linear, non-linear and coding gain of various schemes.

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