Title :
Transmission of 448-Gb/s dual-carrier POLMUX-16QAM over 1230 km with 5 flexi-grid ROADM passes
Author :
Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; van den Borne, D. ; Veljanovski, V. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Hirano, M. ; Yamamoto, Y. ; Sasaki, T. ; Jansen, S.L. ; de Waardt, H.
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We show the compatibility of 448-Gb/s dual-carrier POLMUX-16QAM modulation with a 87.5-GHz flexi-grid channel spacing in the presence of cascaded optical filtering, enabling transmission over 1230 km and 5 ROADM passes with 4.8-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency.
Keywords :
multiplexing; optical filters; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; bit rate 448 Gbit/s; cascaded optical filtering; distance 1230 km; dual carrier POLMUX-16QAM; flexi-grid ROADM passes; flexi-grid channel spacing; frequency 87.5 GHz; polarization multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; remotely configurable add-drop multiplexers; spectral efficiency; Bit error rate; Optical fiber filters; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
