A WDM transmission in a 62.5-GHz grid over 452 km using 3×400-Gb/s Superchannels at 6.4 b/s/Hz

Author

Carvalho, Luis H. H. ; Ranzini, S.M. ; Silva, Edson P. ; Pataca, Daniel M. ; Oliveira, Julio Cesar R. F. ; Adami, C.B.F. ; Bordonalli, Aldario C.

Author_Institution

Opt. Syst. Div., CPqD Found., Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A WDM transmission of 3×400-Gb/s superchannels in a 62.5-GHz flexible-grid over 452 km of pure-silica core fiber with erbium-doped fiber amplification and two reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer passes is demonstrated. A coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique was used to form 4×100-Gb/s subcarriers per superchannel via 16-QAM and polarization division multiplexing, resulting in a 6.4 b/s/Hz spectral efficiency.

Keywords

amplification; optical communication; polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM; WDM transmission; erbium-doped fiber amplification; flexible grid; frequency 62.5 GHz; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique; polarization division multiplexing; pure-silica core fiber; reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer; superchannels; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing; coherent detection; flexible-grid; orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing; spectral efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2013 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2013.6646468

Filename

6646468