A novel modulation format identification based on amplitude histogram space

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel modulation format identification method for square M-quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM) signals which is based on amplitude histogram space of the incoming data after analog-to-digital conversion, chromatic dispersion compensation at the receiver. We demonstrated the identification of quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), 16-QAM, 64-QAM formats with an amplitude histogram space. Simulation results show that it achieve 100% identification accuracy when the incoming signal OSNR is 14 dB to identify the modulation format of QPSK, 16-QAM, and 64-QAM signals in digital coherent systems. The method has low complexity and small delay.

Keywords

modulation format identification (MFI) / amplitude histogram space / high-order modulation format / optical performance monitoring

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61575071, and 61331010).

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