• DocumentCode
    3701090
  • Title

    Experimental investigation of a 16-dimensional modulation format for long-haul multi-core fiber transmission

  • Author

    G. Rademacher;B. J. Puttnam;R. S. Luís;Y. Awaji;N. Wada;E. Agrell;K. Petermann

  • Author_Institution
    Photonic Network System Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8759, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally investigate a 16-dimensional modulation format applicable to multi-core fiber transmission, and demonstrate over 14,000 km transmission for a BER of 1E-3, a 55 % improvement in reach compared to DP-BPSK for the same spectral efficiency.
  • Keywords
    "Modulation","Bit error rate","Optical noise","Sensitivity","Signal to noise ratio","Receivers","Multicore processing"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341784
  • Filename
    7341784