Single carrier 400G WDM transmission over 2,424-KM EDFA-amplified link using 100GBE-grade analog components and 4-PAM TO 16-QAM conversion

Author

Yue-Kai Huang ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Ip, Ezra ; Ting Wang ; Aono, Yoshiaki ; Tajima, Tsutomu

Author_Institution

NEC Labs. America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

370

Abstract

Single carrier 400G signal generation and detection is achieved using 100GbE-grade modulator and photo-detectors with novel 4-PAM to 16-QAM signal emulation. Eight DP-16QAM channels are transmitted using EDFA-only amplification over 2,424-km, achieving 5.33-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency.

Keywords

erbium; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 100GBE-grade analog components; 100GbE-grade modulator; 16-QAM conversion; 4-PAM; DP-16QAM channels; EDFA-amplified link; EDFA-only amplification; distance 2424 km; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; photodetectors; single carrier WDM transmission; spectral efficiency; wavelength division multiplexing; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Q-factor; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Type

conf

Filename

6888111