Title :
16
107-Gb/s 12.5-GHz-Spaced PDM-36QAM Transmission Over 400 km of Standard Single-Mode Fiber
Author :
Yu, Jianjun ; Zhou, Xiang
Author_Institution :
ZTE Inc., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Employing raised-cosine pulse-shaped polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) 36 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) format and standard single-mode fiber (SMF-28), 16 × 107-Gb/s PDM-36QAM signals in 12.5-GHz spacing have been realized to transmit over 400 km with a hybrid erbium-doped fiber amplifier and Raman amplification. The spectral efficiency (SE) for the 100 Gb/s is up to 8 b/s/Hz. This is the longest transmission for 100 Gb/s with an SE of 8 b/s/Hz.
Keywords :
erbium; multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; PDM-36QAM transmission; Raman amplification; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; frequency 12.5 GHz; pulse-shaped polarization-division-multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; spectral efficiency; standard single-mode fiber; Decoding; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber polarization; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Signal generators; Stimulated emission; 36 quadrature amplitude modulation (36QAM); Coherent detection; spectral efficiency (SE); transmission;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2010.2054075