Title :
Transmission of 1.63-Tb/s PDM-16QAM unique-word DFT-spread OFDM signal over 1,010-km SSMF
Author :
Li, An ; Chen, Xi ; Gao, Guanjun ; Amin, Abdullah Al ; Shieh, William ; Krongold, Brian S.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate transmission of 1.63-Tb/s PDM-16QAM unique-word DFT-spread OFDM signal over 1,010-km SSMF with 80-km span length and EDFA-only amplification. We find a 20 % reach improvement of DFT-spread OFDM over conventional OFDM.
Keywords :
Fiber nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
