Title :
512-Gb/s DP-16-QAM field trial over 734 km installed SSMF with co-propagating 10 Gb/s NRZ neighbors incorporating soft-FEC decoding
Author :
Buchali, Fred ; Schuh, Karsten ; Rosener, Detlef ; Lach, Eugen ; Dischler, Roman ; Idler, Wilfried ; Schmalen, Laurent ; Leven, Andreas ; Braun, Ralf-Peter ; Ehrhardt, Armin ; Gerlach, Christoph ; Schurer, Lars
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Lorenzstr. 10, D-70435 Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
We report on a 512-Gb/s dual-carrier DP-16-QAM long haul field trial over 734 km of dispersion compensated SSMF with 10-Gb/s neighbors. Soft FEC decoding was utilized in the receiver DSP confirming successful transmission.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Forward error correction; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters;
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
