Title : 
Casting 1 Tb/s DP-QPSK communication into 200 GHz bandwidth
         
        
            Author : 
Poti, Luca ; Meloni, Gianluca ; Berrettini, G. ; Fresi, Francesco ; Secondini, Marco ; Foggi, T. ; Colavolpe, Giulio ; Forestieri, Enrico ; D´Errico, A. ; Cavaliere, Fabio ; Sabella, R. ; Prati, G.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Photonic Networks Nat. Lab., CNIT, Pisa, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrate the feasibility of a novel time-frequency packing technique to implement DP-QPSK communication with a record spectral efficiency ranging from 5.14 to 4.3 bit/s/Hz over a distance ranging from 3000 km to 5200 km of uncompensated standard fiber, respectively.
         
        
            Keywords : 
casting; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK communication; casting; distance 3000 km to 5200 km; frequency 200 GHz; record spectral efficiency; time-frequency packing technique; uncompensated standard fiber; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Parity check codes;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Amsterdam