Yuxiang Duan, Huibin Zhou, Zile Jiang, Muralekrishnan Ramakrishnan, Xinzhou Su, Wing Ko, Yue Zuo, Hongkun Lian, Ruoyu Zeng, Yingning Wang, Zixun Zhao, Moshe Tur, and Alan E. Willner
Abstract
In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate an 8-Gbit/s quadrature-phase-shift-keying (QPSK) coherent underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) link under scattering conditions at 532 nm. At the transmitter, we generate the 532-nm QPSK signal using second-harmonic generation (SHG), where the 1064-nm signal modulated with four phase levels of an 8-phase-shift-keying (8-PSK) format is phase doubled to produce the 532-nm QPSK signal. To enhance the receiver sensitivity, we utilize a local oscillator (LO) at the receiver from an independent laser source. The received QPSK data beam is mixed with the independent LO for coherent heterodyne detection. Results show that the bit error rates (BERs) of the received QPSK signal can reach below the 7% forward error correction (FEC) limit under turbid water with attenuation lengths (γL) up to 7.4 and 6.1 for 2- and 8-Gbit/s QPSK, respectively. The corresponding receiver sensitivities are −34.0 and −28.4 dBm for 2- and 8-Gbit/s QPSK, respectively.
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