Title :
Transmission of 11 × 224-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-16QAM over 1500 km of LongLine and pure-silica SMF
Author :
Alfiad, M.S. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Jansen, S.L. ; Wuth, T. ; van den Borne, D. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We demonstrate transmission of 11 × 224-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-16QAM over 1500 km with a channel spacing of 50 GHz. A hybrid configuration of LongLine and pure silica fiber is used to optimize both nonlinear tolerance and Raman gain.
Keywords :
optical fibres; quadrature amplitude modulation; LongLine; POLMUX-RZ-16QAM; Raman gain; nonlinear tolerance; pure silica fiber; pure-silica SMF; transmission; Bit error rate; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621370
