Ultra-long-haul optical transmission characteristics of wavelength-division multiplexed dual-polarisation 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulation signals

Author

Kikuchi, Kazuro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

46

Issue

6

fYear

2010

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

434

Abstract

Through intensive computer simulations, ultra-long-haul transmission characteristics of 100-Gbit/s polarisation-multiplexed 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulation (16-QAM) signals are studied, which are densely wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) on the 25 GHz spaced frequency grid. The dispersion-unmanaged link consisting only of large-core singlemode fibres has strong tolerance to cross-phase modulation among WDM channels, and 2000 km transmission is enabled with the digital coherent receiver.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; optical fibre networks; optical links; optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM signal; WDM channel; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; digital coherent optical receiver; dispersion-unmanaged link; dual-polarisation-multiplexed 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulation signal; frequency 25 GHz; large-core singlemode fibre; spaced frequency grid; ultra-long-haul transmission characteristics; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el.2010.3533

Filename

5434630