Title : 
Unrepeatered transmission over 300 km of NZDSF using 8×112-Gb/s time-interleaved RZ-PDM-QPSK with coherent detection and forward Raman pumping
         
        
            Author : 
Xie, Chongjin ; Raybon, Greg
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We show that time-interleaved RZ-PDM-QPSK and forward Raman pumping can increase the performance of a 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK coherent unrepeatered transmission system over 300 km of NZDSF by more than 2 dB.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light polarisation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical pumping; quadrature phase shift keying; time division multiplexing; NZDSF; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; coherent unrepeatered transmission system; distance 300 km; forward Raman pumping; nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber; optical coherent detection; time interleaved polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature-phase-shift-keying; time-interleaved RZ-PDM-QPSK; Decoding; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical pumping; Q factor; Stimulated emission;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Los Angeles, CA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0213-6