Title :
Experimental investigation of a 16-dimensional modulation format for long-haul multi-core fiber transmission
Author :
G. Rademacher;B. J. Puttnam;R. S. Luís;Y. Awaji;N. Wada;E. Agrell;K. Petermann
Author_Institution :
Photonic Network System Laboratory, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8759, Japan
Abstract :
We experimentally investigate a 16-dimensional modulation format applicable to multi-core fiber transmission, and demonstrate over 14,000 km transmission for a BER of 1E-3, a 55 % improvement in reach compared to DP-BPSK for the same spectral efficiency.
Keywords :
"Modulation","Bit error rate","Optical noise","Sensitivity","Signal to noise ratio","Receivers","Multicore processing"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341784
