DocumentCode
1279375
Title
10 
224-Gb/s POLMUX-16QAM Transmission Over 656 km of Large- 
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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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