Open Access
Evaluating 200G/400G solutions for practical deployments in long‐haul network
Author(s) -
Ma Yiran,
Makovejs Sergejs,
Wang Qing,
Wood William A.,
Kaliteevskiy Nikolay,
Li Junjie,
Zhang Chengliang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2016.2221
Subject(s) - modulation (music) , span (engineering) , quadrature amplitude modulation , materials science , margin (machine learning) , electronic engineering , telecommunications , computer science , optics , engineering , physics , acoustics , structural engineering , bit error rate , decoding methods , machine learning
200G/400G systems based on 16QAM and 8QAM are studied over three China Telecom links with different distances and span lengths. Ultra‐low loss and ultra‐low loss + large Aeff fibres were shown to support high‐order modulation with sufficient industrial margin.