16 x 112 gb/s nrz-dqpsk lab experiments and wdm field trial over ultimate metro distances including high pmd fibers

Author

Idler, Wilfried ; Lach, E. ; Kuebart, W. ; Junginger, B. ; Schuh, K. ; Klekamp, Axel ; Werner, D. ; Steffan, A.G. ; Schippel, A. ; Schneiders, M. ; Vorbeck, S. ; Braun, Ralf-Peter

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany

Volume

29

Issue

15

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2195

Lastpage

2203

Abstract

A 16 × 112 Gb/s field transmission trial was successfully performed over legacy fiber infrastructure of Deutsche Telekom comprising partially high polarization mode dispersion (PMD) values of 8 ps. Using a commercial PMD compensator, transmission over high PMD with negligible penalty was achieved. Enabled by the maturity of 43 Gb/s components, a 112 Gb/s nonreturn to zero (NRZ) differential quadrature phase-shift keying modulation format for dense wavelength division multiplexing transmissions with good system margins of 5 dB over 450 km metro distances (3 dB over 764 km) was demonstrated. By using high baud rate of 56 Gbd, penalty-free transmission is performed when copropagating with either 10.7 Gb/s NRZ or 43 Gb/s phase-shaped binary transmission signal channels.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical transmitters; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; Deutsche Telekom fiber infrastructure; NRZ-DQPSK lab experiments; PMD compensator; WDM field trial; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; bit rate 43 Gbit/s; dense wavelength division multiplexing transmissions; distance 450 km; distance 764 km; field transmission trial; noise figure 3 dB; noise figure 5 dB; nonreturn-to-zero differential quadrature phase-shift keying modulation format; polarization mode dispersion; Modulation; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical noise; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Gb/s transmission; Copropagation with 10 and 40 Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) signals; differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) modulation format; field trial; metro systems; polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2011.2157894

Filename

5776629