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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
