Title :
PDM-OFDM-32QAM WDM signals transmission over 4,200 km with nonlinear compensation and EDFA only amplification
Author :
Ming-Fang Huang ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Yaman, Fatih ; Dayou Qian ; Ting Wang
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Employing multi-band digital backpropagation for nonlinearity compensation, we experimentally demonstrated eight 100-Gbit/s PDM-OFDM-32QAM DWDM transmission over 4,242 km in a 12.5 GHz frequency grid. It achieves the longest transmission distance using EDFA only amplification to date.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; backpropagation; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; PDM-OFDM-32QAM DWDM signal transmission; amplification; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; distance 4242 km; frequency 12.5 GHz; frequency grid; multiband digital backpropagation; nonlinear compensation; transmission distance; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Q-factor; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
