Abstract:We experimentally demonstrated phase-noise-tolerant 20-Gbit/s QPSK self-homodyne transmission over 80 km using a spectrumsliced lightwave from an inexpensive Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD). We employed an optical phase-noise cancellation technique based on self-homodyne detection using a polarization-multiplexed pilot-carrier. A BER of < 10 −8 after 80-km transmission was successfully attained without using error correction. To the authors' best knowledge, this is the first experimental demonstration of multi-level modulation/demodulation using an FP-LD. Keywords: optical fiber communications, QPSK, self-homodyne, spectral slicing, Fabry-Perot laser diode Classification: Fiber-optic communication Lett., vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 930-932, March 2004. [3] T. Miyazaki, "Linewidth-tolerant QPSK homodyne transmission using a polarization-multiplexed pilot carrier," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 388-390, Jan. 2006. [4] S. Norimatsu, K. Iwashita, and K. Noguchi, "An 8 Gb/s QPSK optical homodyne detection experiment using external-cavity laser diodes," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 765-767, July 1992. [5] D.-S. Ly-Gagnon, K. Katoh, and K. Kikuchi, "Unrepeatered optical transmission of 20 Gbit/s quadrature phase-shift keying signals over 210 km using homodyne phase-diversity receiver and digital signal processing,"