120.7-Tb/s MCF-ROPA Unrepeatered Transmission of PDM-32QAM Channels Over 204 km

Author

Takara, Hidehiko ; Mizuno, Takayuki ; Kawakami, Hiroto ; Miyamoto, Yutaka ; Masuda, Hiroji ; Kitamura, Kokoro ; Ono, Hirotaka ; Asakawa, Shuichiro ; Amma, Yoshimichi ; Hirakawa, Keisuke ; Matsuo, Shoichiro ; Tsujikawa, Kyozo ; Yamada, Makoto

Author_Institution

NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan

Volume

33

Issue

7

fYear

2015

fDate

April1, 1 2015

Firstpage

1473

Lastpage

1478

Abstract

We demonstrate the unrepeatered transmission of over 100 Tb/s by employing a multicore-fiber-based remote optically pumped amplifier. We establish 120.7-Tb/s, 204-km seven-core fiber transmission with the aggregate spectral efficiency (SE) of 53.6 b/s/Hz, a record capacity per fiber and the highest SE for unrepeatered transmission. We also realized the highest capacity per core of 17.2 Tb/s (180 × 95.8 Gb/s) and SE of 7.6 b/s/Hz by using the polarization-division-multiplexed 32-quadrature amplitude modulation format for unrepeatered transmission.

Keywords

optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical pumping; quadrature amplitude modulation; space division multiplexing; MCF-ROPA unrepeatered transmission; PDM-32QAM channels; aggregate spectral efficiency; bit rate 120.7 Tbit/s; bit rate 17.2 Tbit/s; distance 204 km; multicore-fiber-based remote optically pumped amplifier; polarization-division-multiplexed 32-quadrature amplitude modulation format; seven-core fiber transmission; space division multiplexing; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; Optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber amplifiers; optical fiber communication; space division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2397009

Filename

7027776