Abstract
Conference Title: 2014 11th Annual High-capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (HONET) Conference Start Date: 2014, Dec. 15 Conference End Date: 2014, Dec. 17 Conference Location: Charlotte, NC, USA We demonstrate a 32Gbaud Quad-DAC based software defined optical transmitter. Our transmitter is able to generate up to 128QAM and 64QAM for single and dual polarizations, respectively. In addition, this transmitter emulates laser phase noise effect.