Title :
Polarization multiplexed 224 Gb/s 16QAM transmission employing digital back-propagation
Author :
Mussolin, Marco ; Rafique, Danish ; Mårtensson, Jonas ; Forzati, Marco ; Fischer, Johannes K. ; Molle, Lutz ; Nölle, Markus ; Schubert, Colja ; Ellis, Andrew D.
Author_Institution :
Electrum 236, Acreo Netlab, Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the performance of back-propagation algorithm in coherently-detected 224Gb/s PM-16QAM system, over 250km of uncompensated link, and report 3.5 dB improvement in power tolerance with one back-propagation step for the entire link.
Keywords :
backpropagation; optical links; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication computing; bit rate 224 Gbit/s; digital backpropagation; distance 250 km; polarization multiplexed 16QAM transmission; power tolerance; Bit error rate; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
