• DocumentCode
    3701221
  • Title

    Experimental analysis of nonlinear interference noise in heterogeneous flex-grid WDM transmission

  • Author

    Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst;Robert Elschner;Felix Frey;Robert Emmerich;Colja Schubert

  • Author_Institution
    Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We transmit a 28-GBd Nyquist PDM-16QAM channel with WDM-interferers (37.5-GHz grid) over 80-km SSMF spans. Interference noise analysis reveals substantial nonlinear phase noise for PDM-16QAM interferers compared to PDM-4QAM, while Q-penalty is kept small by appropriate CPE.
  • Keywords
    "Bit error rate","Phase noise","Wavelength division multiplexing","Modulation","Interference","Digital signal processing","Optical filters"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341918
  • Filename
    7341918
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3701221