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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Generation and long-haul transmission of polarization-switched QPSK at 42.9 Gb/s
David S Millar1, Domaniç Lavery, Sergejs Makovejs
1Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom. d.millar@ee.ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
We demonstrate, for the first time, the generation and transmission of polarization-switched QPSK (PS-QPSK) signals at 42.9 Gb/s. Long-haul transmission of PS-QPSK is experimentally investigated in a recirculating loop and compared with transmission of dual-polarization QPSK (DP-QPSK) at 42.9 Gb/s per channel. A reduction in the required OSNR of 0.7 dB was found at a BER of 3.8 x 10(-3), resulting in an increase in maximum reach of more than 30% for a WDM system operating on a 50 GHz frequency grid. The maximum reach of 13640 km for WDM PS-QPSK is, to the best of our knowledge, the longest distance reported for 40 Gb/s WDM transmission, over an uncompensated link, with standard fiber and amplification.
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