Title :
Transmission reach doubling enabled by transmitter-side digital back propagation and frequency referenced carriers
Author :
E. Temprana;E. Myslivets;L. Liu;A. Pejkic;V. Ataie;B. P.-P. Kuo;D. Esman;A. Wiberg;N. Alic;S. Radic
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093
Abstract :
A 100% reach extension in a coherent Wavelength Division Multiplexing link is demonstrated relying on transmitter-side full-field Digital Back-Propagation and frequency referenced carriers. Transmission reach is extended from 1445 km to 2890 km for a 4-channel 16 GBaud 16-QAM system.
Keywords :
"Optical transmitters","Optical attenuators","Optical fiber dispersion","Optical receivers","Optical fiber amplifiers","Wavelength division multiplexing"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341900
