IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2010 · 52 citations · 8 references
EngineeringCommunicationElectrical EngineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical Communication SystemsOptical Fiber PropagationOptical FibersOptical InterconnectsCrosstalkDispersion-engineered FibersDispersion-shifted FibersFiber Optic Communication SystemsLong-haul Optical TransmissionOptical FilteringOptical Transmission SystemsSingle-mode Fibers
We experimentally investigate the transmission of a 1.12-Tb/s Dense-WDM (D-WDM) system comprising 10 × 112 Gb/s polarization-multiplexed quadrature phase-shift-keying channels with ultra-narrow spacing (1.1 times the Baud rate). The D-WDM signal is generated by means of a recirculating frequency shifter. We used narrow optical filtering of channels at the transmitter to reduce interchannel crosstalk. With 100-km uncompensated spans and EDFA amplification, we reached 800 km over nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber (NZDSF) and 2300 km over standard single-mode fiber, at BER=3·10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> . By simulation, we also investigated transmission over large-effective area NZDSF fiber (LEAF) and pure silica-core fiber (PSCF). We found that the D-WDM channel should achieve a 40% longer reach with LEAF than with NZDSF and a 45% longer reach with PSCF than with standard single-mode fiber.
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1-Tb/s per Channel Coherent Optical OFDM Transmission with Subwavelength Bandwidth Access