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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
25 Tb/s transmission over 5,530 km using 16QAM at 5.2 b/s/Hz spectral efficiency
J-X Cai1, H G Batshon, H Zhang
1TE SubCom, 250 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ 07724, USA. jcai@subcom.com
Abstract:
We transmit 250x100G PDM RZ-16QAM channels with 5.2 b/s/Hz spectral efficiency over 5,530 km using single-stage C-band EDFAs equalized to 40 nm. We use single parity check coded modulation and all channels are decoded with no errors after iterative decoding between a MAP decoder and an LDPC based FEC algorithm. We also observe that the optimum power spectral density is nearly independent of SE, signal baud rate or modulation format in a dispersion uncompensated system.
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