7-Tb/s (7 × 1.284 Tb/s/ch) signal transmission over 320 km using PDM-64QAM modulation

  • Jianjun Yu*
  • , Ze Dong
  • , Hung Chang Chien
  • , Yufeng Shao
  • , Nan Chi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We have transmitted a 7 × 1.284 Tb/s/ch signal over 320-km conventional single mode fiber (SMF-28) with hybrid amplifier spans of 80 km. Each terabit superchannel comprises ten Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing polarization division multiplexing 64 quadrature amplitude modulation subchannels occupying 137.5 GHz, which gives a spectral-efficiency of 7.65 b/s/Hz per superchannel. The bit error ratio of all channels after transmission over 320 km is measured smaller than 2 × 10 -2, the soft-decision forward error correction limit.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6086712
Pages (from-to)264-266
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume24
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Coherent detection
  • Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing
  • multilevel modulation
  • signal transmission
  • spectral efficiency

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