Modulation formats for 100G and beyond

E Lach, W Idler - Optical fiber technology, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper reviews technological options for the modulation formats for serial optical
transmission of 100Gb/s and beyond. In the first part an overview on various modulation …

Capacity trends and limits of optical communication networks

RJ Essiambre, RW Tkach - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the first deployments of fiber-optic communication systems three decades ago, the
capacity carried by a single-mode optical fiber has increased by a staggering 10 000 times …

Long distance transmission in few-mode fibers

F Yaman, N Bai, B Zhu, T Wang, G Li - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Using multimode fibers for long-haul transmission is proposed and demonstrated
experimentally. In particular few-mode fibers (FMFs) are demonstrated as a good …

109-Tb/s (7× 97× 172-Gb/s SDM/WDM/PDM) QPSK transmission through 16.8-km homogeneous multi-core fiber

J Sakaguchi, Y Awaji, N Wada, A Kanno… - 2011 Optical Fiber …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
109-Tb/s (7×97×172-Gb/s SDM/WDM/PDM) QPSK transmission through
16.8-km homogeneous multi-core fiber Page 1 109-Tb/s (7x97x172-Gb/s SDM/WDM/PDM) …

Demonstration of mode-division multiplexing transmission over 10 km two-mode fiber with mode coupler

N Hanzawa, K Saitoh, T Sakamoto, T Matsui… - Optical Fiber …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Demonstration of mode-division multiplexing transmission over 10 km two-mode fiber with
mode coupler Page 1 Demonstration of mode-division multiplexing transmission over 10 km …

448-Gb/s reduced-guard-interval CO-OFDM transmission over 2000 km of ultra-large-area fiber and five 80-GHz-grid ROADMs

X Liu, S Chandrasekhar, B Zhu, PJ Winzer… - Journal of lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-
OFDM) scheme with reduced guard interval (RGI) for high-speed high-spectral-efficiency …

64-Tb/s, 8 b/s/Hz, PDM-36QAM transmission over 320 km using both pre-and post-transmission digital signal processing

X Zhou, J Yu, MF Huang, Y Shao, T Wang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report the successful transmission of 64 Tb/s capacity (640 \,*\, 107 Gb/s with 12.5 GHz
channel spacing) over 320 km reach utilizing 8-THz of spectrum in the \rmC+\rmL-bands at a …

High capacity/spectral efficiency 101.7-Tb/s WDM transmission using PDM-128QAM-OFDM over 165-km SSMF within C-and L-bands

D Qian, MF Huang, E Ip, YK Huang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate 101.7-Tb/s transmission over 355 km spans of standard
single-mode fiber (SSMF) at a net spectral efficiency of 11 b/s/Hz. A total of 370 dense …

10 x 112Gb/s PDM-QPSK transmission over 5032 km in few-mode fibers

F Yaman, N Bai, YK Huang, MF Huang, B Zhu… - Optics …, 2010 - opg.optica.org
Few-mode fibers (FMFs) are used for the first time to transmit over 5000 km. Ten WDM
channels with 50GHz channel spacing at 112 Gb/s per channel using PDM-QPSK are …

Ultra-high capacity WDM transmission using spectrally-efficient PDM 16-QAM modulation and C-and extended L-band wideband optical amplification

A Sano, H Masuda, T Kobayashi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
This paper describes ultrahigh capacity transmission based on spectrally-efficient multi-level
modulation and wideband optical amplification techniques. 21.4-Gbaud polarization-division …