40×117.6 Gb/s PDM-16QAM OFDM Transmission over 10,181 km with Soft-Decision LDPC Coding and Nonlinearity Compensation

Shaoliang Zhang, Ming-Fang Huang, Fatih Yaman, Eduardo Mateo, Dayou Qian, Yequn Zhang, Lei Xu, Yin Shao, Ivan B. Djordjević, Ting Wang,

2012 · 23 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Transmission of 117.6Gb/s optical PDM-16QAM OFDM signals over 10,181km is demonstrated at 25-GHz channel spacing with 4.7 b/s/Hz spectral efficiency. All the errors have been corrected by using 25% overhead QC-LDPC after multi-band nonlinearity compensation.

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