Title :
System performance of Long-Haul 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK DWDM transmission over large-area fiber and SSMF spans
Author :
Zhu, Benpeng ; Peckham, D.W. ; Jiang, Xinyang ; Lingle, Robert
Author_Institution :
OFS Labs., Somerset, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally compare the system performance of 80 × 112-Gb/s DWDM transmission over large-area-fiber and SSMF spans. The large-area-fiber offers ~2.6 dBm higher optimum launch power with about 1.5dB Q2-factor improvement than SSMF at 32 × 100-km, and about 63% longer reach than SSMF.
Keywords :
quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; SSMF span; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; large-area-fiber span; long-haul PDM-QPSK DWDM transmission; optimum launch power; polarization-division-multiplexed QPSK modulation; system performance;
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.2013.1625