DocumentCode
1794534
Title
1.4Tb real-time alien superchannel transport demonstration over 410km installed fiber link using software reconfigurable DP-16QAM/QPSK
Author
Yu Rong Zhou ; Smith, K. ; Payne, Roger ; Lord, Andrew ; Raddatz, Lutz ; Bertolini, Marco ; Van De Velde, Tony ; Colombo, Claudio ; Korkmaz, Eyup ; Fontana, Michele ; Evans, Steve
Author_Institution
British Telecommun., Ipswich, UK
fYear
2014
fDate
9-13 March 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We successfully demonstrated, for the first time, 1.4Tb/s real-time Alien Superchannel over a 410km EDFA-only field fiber link using software reconfigurable DP-16QAM/QPSK production hardware, achieving spectral efficiency up to 5.7bit/s/Hz and long term error-free performance.
Keywords
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; optical links; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; software radio; spectral analysis; EDFA-only field fiber link; bit rate 1.4 Tbit/s; distance 410 km; error free performance; real-time Alien superchannel transport demonstration; software reconfigurable DP-16QAM; software reconfigurable QPSK; spectral efficiency; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Channel spacing; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-5575-2994-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th5A.9
Filename
6887220
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