Title :
401 km unrepeatered transmission of dual-carrier 400 Gb/s PDM-16QAM mixed with 100 Gb/s channels
Author :
Mongardien, D. ; Bastide, C. ; Lavigne, Bruno ; Etienne, S. ; Bissessur, H.
Author_Institution :
Centre de Villarceaux, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, Nozay, France
Abstract :
We present the unrepeatered transmission of a dual carrier 400 Gb/s PDM-16QAM channel over 401 km, mixed with 100 Gb/s PDM-QPSK channels. We show that pre-emphasis of the 400 Gb/s channel results in equalized channel margins at the link output.
Keywords :
equalisers; multiplexing; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-QPSK channels; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; bit rate 400 Gbit/s; distance 401 km; dual carrier PDM-16QAM; equalized channel margins; polarisation division multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying; unrepeatered transmission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1344
