Title :
WDM transmission of 152-Gb/s polarization multiplexed RZ-16QAM signals with 25-GHz channel spacing over 15×80-km of SSMF
Author :
Ming-Fang Huang ; Huang, Ming-Fang ; Ip, Ezra ; Shao, Yin ; Wang, Ting
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate transmission of 20×152-Gb/s PolMux-RZ-16QAM at a channel spacing of 25 GHz (5.68 b/s/Hz) over 15×80-km spans of SSFM. Coherent detection was used to recover the transmitted data and we achieved BER below 3.8×10-3.
Keywords :
channel spacing; error statistics; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; SSMF; WDM transmission; bit rate 152 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; channel spacing; frequency 25 GHz; polarization multiplexed RZ-16QAM signals; standard single-mode fiber; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
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
