DocumentCode
1793874
Title
1 Tb/s - 4×343 Gb/s subcarriers on 50GHz grid - transmission over 480 km SMF with 22 GHz bandwidth semiconductor modulator
Author
Idler, W. ; Buchali, Fred ; Schuh, Karsten ; Cameron, N. ; Brast, T. ; Schmid, S. ; Steffan, A.
Author_Institution
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany
fYear
2014
fDate
9-13 March 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
A 1 Tb/s option is demonstrated with 4 subcarriers on the 50 GHz grid, modulated with 43GBd PM-16QAM using a 40 Gb/s GaAs I/Q modulator module. 6dB of OSNR margins are obtained with transmission over 480km SMF.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; modulators; optical communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; GaAs; I/Q modulator module; OSNR; PM-16QAM; bandwidth 22 GHz; bit rate 1 Tbit/s; distance 480 km; frequency 50 GHz; semiconductor modulator; transmission bitrate hierarchy; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Gallium arsenide; Modulation; Optical noise; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-5575-2994-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th4F.2
Filename
6886847
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