• DocumentCode
    2847034
  • Title

    Transmission of 11 × 224-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-16QAM over 1500 km of LongLine and pure-silica SMF

  • Author

    Alfiad, M.S. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Jansen, S.L. ; Wuth, T. ; van den Borne, D. ; de Waardt, H.

  • Author_Institution
    COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate transmission of 11 × 224-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-16QAM over 1500 km with a channel spacing of 50 GHz. A hybrid configuration of LongLine and pure silica fiber is used to optimize both nonlinear tolerance and Raman gain.
  • Keywords
    optical fibres; quadrature amplitude modulation; LongLine; POLMUX-RZ-16QAM; Raman gain; nonlinear tolerance; pure silica fiber; pure-silica SMF; transmission; Bit error rate; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621370
  • Filename
    5621370