• DocumentCode
    1963330
  • Title

    21.7 Tb/s field trial with 22 DP-8QAM/QPSK optical superchannels over 1,503-km of installed SSMF

  • Author

    Xia, Tiejun J. ; Wellbrock, Glenn A. ; Huang, Yue-Kai ; Huang, Ming-Fang ; Ip, Ezra ; Ji, Philip N. ; Qian, Dayou ; Tanaka, Akihiro ; Shao, Yin ; Wang, Ting ; Aono, Yoshiaki ; Tajima, Tsutomu

  • Author_Institution
    Verizon, Richardson, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest capacity field trial completed to date at 21.7-Tb/s. 22 optical superchannels with flexible modulation formats were transmitted over 1,503-km installed SSMF using digital coherent detection.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-8QAM-QPSK optical superchannels; SSMF; bit rate 21.7 Tbit/s; digital coherent detection; distance 1503 km; dual polarization QAM-APSK; flexible modulation formats; highest capacity field trial; installed SSMF; Modulation; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6192265