Title :
Fiber performance comparison in all-EDFA 112 Gb/s PDM-QPSK systems
Author :
Stark, A. ; Hsueh, Yao-Chu ; Detwiler, T. ; Filer, Mark ; Tibuleac, Sorin ; Chang, Gee-Kung ; Ralph, Stephen E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We quantify performance of 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK WDM systems using TrueWave REACH, AllWave, and Ultra-Large Area fibers. Experimental results identify linear and nonlinear transport regimes and yield margin and OSNR penalties against to FEC BER limits.
Keywords :
erbium; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; AllWave; BER; EDFA; FEC; OSNR; PDM-QPSK WDM; TrueWave REACH; Ultra-Large Area fibers; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; fiber performance comparison; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
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
