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420 JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 24, NO. 1, JANUARY 2006 Multilevel Coding in M -ary DPSK/Differential QAM High-Speed Optical Transmission With Direct Detection Ivan B. Djordjevic, Member, IEEE, and Bane Vasic, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—A bandwidth- and power-efficient modulation general, an interesting reader is referred to [4], and for more scheme using M -ary differential phase-shift keying (DPSK)/ details on PID to [3]. It has been widely recognized that differential quadrature amplitude modulation (DQAM) and the use of Gray mapping and PID at each level separately, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as component codes in a multilevel coding (MLC) is proposed for optical transmission with optimally chosen component codes [3], [5], [6], may systems with direct detection. An MLC scheme with 2 b/s/Hz lead to channel capacity approaching performance. Our idea is spectral efficiency based on block-circulant component codes to use low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes as component provides the coding gain of 12.3 dB when compared to uncoded codes. LDPC codes have been shown to be able to achieve 8-DPSK, and 8.3 dB when compared to uncoded 4-DPSK impressive coding gains on a variety of channels, including (QDPSK). the fiber-optic communication channel [10], [11]. Further- Index Terms—Differential quadrature amplitude modulation more, their low-complexity decoding algorithm makes them a (DQAM), low-density parity-check codes (LDPC), M