Title :
Nonlinear tolerant long-haul WDM transmission over 1200km using 538Gb/s/ch PDM-64QAM SC-FDM signals with pilot tone
Author :
Kobayashi, Takehiko ; Sano, Akihide ; Matsuura, A. ; Miyamoto, Yutaka ; Ishihara, Koichi
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
We investigate long-haul WDM transmission using 538Gb/s PDM-64QAM single-carrier frequency-division-multiplexing (SC-FDM) signal with pilot tone. Assuming 20% FEC overhead, the longest transmission distance of 1200km at the spectral efficiency of 8.96b/s/Hz is achieved.
Keywords :
frequency division multiplexing; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; FEC overhead; PDM-64QAM SC-FDM signal; bit rate 538 Gbit/s; distance 1200 km; nonlinear tolerant long-haul WDM transmission; pilot tone; single-carrier frequency-division-multiplexing; spectral efficiency; High-speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Q-factor; Wavelength division multiplexing;
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
