Title :
On the ultimate potential of symbol-rate optimization for increasing system maximum reach
Author :
P. Poggiolini;A. Carena;Y. Jiang;G. Bosco;F. Forghieri
Author_Institution :
Politecnico di Torino, DET, corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24,10129 Torino (TO), Italy
Abstract :
We investigate the reach-increase obtained by optimizing the transmission symbol rate. We show that for PM-QPSK systems at full-C-band the increase may be larger than obtained through ideal single-channel backward-propagation, and similar for PM-16QAM.
Keywords :
"Wavelength division multiplexing","Optical fiber communication","Bandwidth","Estimation","Modulation","Optimization"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7342025
