Title :
Transmission of 115×100G PDM-8QAM-OFDM channels with 4bits/s/Hz spectral efficiency over 10,181km
Author :
Qian, Dayou ; Huang, Ming-Fang ; Zhang, Shaoliang ; Ji, Philip Nan ; Shao, Yin ; Yaman, Fatih ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Wang, Ting ; Inada, Yoshihisa ; Ogata, Takaaki ; Aoki, Yuya
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Transmission of 11.5-Tb/s (115×120.5-Gb/s) is performed over 10,181km using PDM-8QAM-OFDM modulation, 60.6km hybrid fiber spans and EDFAs. Achieved spectral efficiency of 4b/s/Hz is the highest reported to date for WDM transmission over more than 10,000km.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFAs; PDM-8QAM-OFDM channel; WDM transmission; bit rate 11.5 Tbit/s; bit rate 4 kbit/s; hybrid fiber spans; OFDM; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
