Abstract

We present results from an optical communications testbed demonstrating polar coded pulse position modulation transmitted to a direct detection receiver. Using weak coherent states we achieve a photon information efficiency of 4.8 bits per received photon.

Date

June 9, 2013

Authors

Jonathan L Habif, Zachary Dutton, Saikat Guha

Conference

CLEO: 2013

Pages

1-2

Publisher

IEEE