WDM performance and multiple-path interference tolerance of a real-time 120 Gbps Pol-Mux QPSK transceiver with soft decision FEC

Author

Nelson, L.E. ; Pan, Yongping ; Birk, M. ; Isaac, R. ; Rasmussen, C. ; Givehchi, M. ; Mikkelsen, B.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Middletown, NJ, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report the measured WDM performance of a real-time 120 Gbps coherent PM-QPSK MSA transceiver with industry-first integrated ADC, DSP and SD-FEC in a 40nm CMOS ASIC. We also evaluate MPI induced OSNR penalty.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; application specific integrated circuits; digital signal processing chips; forward error correction; optical transceivers; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; ADC; ASIC; CMOS; DSP; MPI; OSNR; Pol-Mux QPSK transceiver; SD-FEC; WDM; analogue-digital converter; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; coherent PM-QPSK MSA transceiver; forward error correction; muliple source agreement; multiple path interference tolerance; quadrature phase shift keying; size 40 nm; soft decision FEC; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6476304