Title :
54.2 Tb/s transoceanic transmission using ultra low loss fiber, multi-rate FEC and digital nonlinear mitigation
Author :
Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi;Laurent Schmalen;Patrice Tran;Christian Simonneau;Elie Awwad;Bogdan Uscumlic;Patrick Brindel;Gabriel Charlet
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Centre de Villarceaux, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France
Abstract :
We demonstrate 54.2Tb/s transmission over transoceanic distances with an average channel rate above 300Gb/s and power consumption as low as 37.1pW/bit/s for the transmission line, thanks to ultra-low-loss fibers, multi-rate FECs and digital nonlinear mitigation techniques.
Keywords :
"Forward error correction","Optical fiber amplifiers","Power demand","Optical fiber cables","Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers","Gain","Optical fiber polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341875
