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Transmission of Multiple Signals through an Optical Fiber Using Wavefront Shaping
Published on: March 20, 2017
116.66-Tb/s WDM transmission over 16 Km field deployed 7-core fiber based on sub-constellations overlap constellation
Abstract:
Constellation shaping (CS) has always been a popular research hotspot in optical communication. Recently, most researchers have focussed on using constellation-shaping technology to improve the system's performance, ignoring the additional penalty it brings to the coherent system. This paper proposes a method of constellation truncation using sub-constellation overlap to perform CS on quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). The experimental results show that compared with the traditional probabilistic shaping 16QAM, the proposed scheme can effectively avoid the extra penalty brought by CS and achieve a gain from 0.5 to 1.5 dB in optical signal-to-noise ratio. To practically verify the proposed scheme's performance, 7-core 16 km fiber span is deployed in the field to experimentally perform space division multiplexed coherent transmission. The wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) of 93 carriers was used to achieve coherent transmission at a net rate of 116.66-Tb/s.
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