Experimental Demonstration of 1.2-Tb/s Optical PDM SCFDM Superchannel Multicasting by HNLF

Author

Yuanxiang Chen ; Juhao Li ; Paikun Zhu ; Yingying Xu ; Yongqi He ; Zhangyuan Chen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

5

Issue

5

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 2013

Firstpage

7902007

Lastpage

7902007

Abstract

Threefold 1.2-Tb/s optical polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) single-carrier frequency-division-multiplexing (SCFDM) and orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) superchannel multicasting, utilizing multiple-pump four-wave mixing (FWM) by highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF), is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in this paper. The optical signal noise ratio (OSNR) penalties of the newly generated SCFDM and OFDM superchannels, at the bit error rate (BER) of 10^-3, are 2.6 dB and 3.1 dB, respectively. Optimal pump power and signal power are also investigated for the two superchannels. The two superchannels have similar optimal pump power, whereas the SCFDM superchannel has higher optimal signal power due to the lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR).

Keywords

OFDM modulation; multicast communication; multiplexing; multiwave mixing; optical fibre networks; FWM; HNLF; bit error rate; bit rate 1.2 Tbit/s; highly nonlinear fiber; multiple pump four wave mixing; optical PDM SCFDM; optical polarization division multiplexing; optical signal noise ratio; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM; peak-to-average power ratio; single carrier frequency division multiplexing; superchannel multicasting; Fiber nonlinear optics; Multicast communication; OFDM; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical transmitters; Superchannel multicasting; four-wave-mixing (FWM); orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM); single-carrier frequency-division-multiplexing (SCFDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2280534

Filename

6588889