Title :
Mode-division-multiplexed 3×112-Gb/s DP-QPSK transmission over 80-km few-mode fiber with inline MM-EDFA and blind DSP
Author :
Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Jung, Yongmin ; Inan, B. ; Chen, Huanting ; van Uden, R.G.H. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Jansen, S.L. ; Veljanovski, V. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Alam, Shahinur ; Poletti, F. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Dhar, Anirban ; Cor
Author_Institution :
COBRA Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We show transmission of a 3×112-Gb/s DP-QPSK mode-division-multiplexed signal up to 80km, with and without multi-mode EDFA, using blind 6×6 MIMO digital signal processing. We show that the OSNR-penalty induced by mode-mixing in the multi-mode EDFA is negligible.
Keywords :
blind source separation; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK mode-division-multiplexed signal; DP-QPSK transmission; OSNR-penalty; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; blind DSP; blind MIMO digital signal processing; distance 80 km; few-mode fiber; inline MM-EDFA; mode-mixing; multimode EDFA; Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Digital signal processing; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
