Transmission of 16.4Tbit/s Capacity over 2,550km using PDM QPSK Modulation Format and Coherent Receiver

Gabriel Charlet, Jérémie Renaudier, H. Mardoyan, P. Tran, Oriol Bertran Pardo, F. Verluise, M. Achouche, Aurélien Boutin, F. Blache, Jean-Yves Dupuy,

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2008 · 32 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

A record capacityxdistance product of 41.8Petabit/s.km is demonstrated. 164 channels are modulated at 100Gbit/s with PDM-QPSK format, packed with 2bit/s/Hz information spectral density, and recovered by off-line processing in a coherent receiver after 2550km distance.