DocumentCode :
1279375
Title :
10 
224-Gb/s POLMUX-16QAM Transmission Over 656 km of Large- 
PSCF W
Author :
Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Alfiad, M.S. ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Veljanovski, V. ; Hirano, Masahiro ; Yamamoto, Yusaku ; Sasaki, T. ; Jansen, S.L. ; Wuth, T. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Volume :
23
Issue :
20
fYear :
2011
Firstpage :
1427
Lastpage :
1429
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the successful transmission of 10 channels with 224-Gb/s POLMUX-16QAM modulation (28 GBaud) on a 37.5-GHz wavelength grid. Using large-Aeff pure-silica-core fibers they show a 656-km transmission distance with a spectral efficiency of 5.6 b/s/Hz. They report a back-to-back performance penalty of 3.5 dB compared to theoretical limits at the forward-error correction (FEC) limit (bit-error rate of 3.8·10-3), and a margin of 0.5 dB in Q-factor with respect to the FEC limit after 656 km of transmission.
Keywords :
forward error correction; multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; FEC limit; POLMUX-16QAM transmission; Q-factor; bit rate 224 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; distance 656 km; forward-error correction limit; frequency 37.5 GHz; gain 0.5 dB; gain 3.5 dB; large-Aeff PSCF; large-Aeff pure-silica-core fiber; polarization multiplexing-16quadrature amplitude modulation transmission; spectral efficiency; transmission distance; wavelength grid; Bit error rate; Modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Stimulated emission; Coherent detection; polarization multiplexing (POLMUX); quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM);
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1041-1135
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2011.2162722
Filename :
5959954
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