Open AccessTransmission of 1936 Tb/s (11 × 176 Gb/s) DP-16QAM superchannel signals over 640 km SSMF with EDFA only and 300 GHz WSS channel
Author(s) -
Jianqiang Li,
Magnus Karlsson,
Peter A. Andrekson,
Kun Xu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.20.00b223
Subject(s) - optics , quadrature amplitude modulation , wavelength division multiplexing , transmission (telecommunications) , optical amplifier , physics , passband , bandwidth (computing) , channel spacing , terabit , channel (broadcasting) , bit error rate , electronic engineering , wavelength , laser , telecommunications , computer science , engineering , band pass filter
With an improved receiver-side spectral shaping technique by introducing and optimizing one tap coefficient in the intermediate response, we successfully transmitted 1.936 Tb/s (11 × 176 Gb/s) DP-16QAM superchannel signal over 8 × 80 km SSMF with EDFA-only and two 280 GHz wavelength selective switches (WSSs) in support of future 1.6 Tb/s Ethernet with up to 20% forward error correction overhead. The 280 GHz 3-dB bandwidth of the WSS passband permits a sufficient guardband if the 1.936 Tb/s superchannel signals are placed in a 300 GHz WSS channel.