4 × 1.15-Tb/s DP-QPSK superchannel transmission over 10,181-km of EDFA amplified hybrid large-core/ ultra low-loss fiber spans with 2-dB FEC margin

Author

Huang, Yue-Kai ; Huang, Ming-Fang ; Qian, Dayou ; Shao, Yin ; Ip, Ezra ; Inoue, Takanori ; Inada, Yoshihisa ; Ogata, Takaaki ; Aoki, Yasuhiro ; Wang, Ting

Author_Institution

NEC Labs. America, Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We report the first terabit/s superchannel transmission over a submarine distance >;10,000 km. Four 1.15-Tb/s superchannels, each consisting of 23 optical subcarriers at 12.5-GHz spacing are modulated with DP-QPSK at 12.5 Gbaud. The WDM signal is transmitted over 168×60.6-km spans of hybrid large-core/ultra low-loss fibers with inline amplification by low noise C-band EDFAs. The system achieved a Q-factor margin of 2 dB assuming the use of HD-FEC, and a spectral efficiency of 3.6 b/s/Hz is achieved.

Keywords

Q-factor; amplification; erbium; forward error correction; laser noise; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; DP-QPSK modulation; DP-QPSK superchannel transmission; EDFA amplified hybrid large-corel ultralow-loss fiber spans; HDFEC margin; Q-factor margin; WDM signal; bit rate 1.15 Tbit/s; distance 10181 km; inline amplification; low noise C-band EDFA; optical subcarriers; spectral efficiency; submarine distance; terabit/s superchannel transmission; Abstracts; Digital signal processing; Generators; Integrated circuits; Oscilloscopes; Coherent communications; fiber design; optical fiber communication; optical signal processing; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2011. ACP. Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2162-108X

Print_ISBN

978-0-8194-8961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1117/12.920491

Filename

6210737