Novel optical offset quadrature phase shift keying (OQPSK) and improved minimum-shift keying (MSK) modulation schemes to smooth optical phase hopping for high speed fiber optics transmission are proposed. Simulations have been done among the MSK, OQPSK, quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulation formats at 40 Gb/s over 100-km transmission link using coherent detection. Simulation results present good performances to elevate chromatic dispersion toleranc
