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Masato YOSHIDA Seiji OKAMOTO Tatsunori OMIYA Keisuke KASAI Masataka NAKAZAWA
To meet the increasing demand to expand wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission capacity, ultrahigh spectral density coherent optical transmission employing multi-level modulation formats has attracted a lot of attention. In particular, ultrahigh multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) has an enormous advantage as regards expanding the spectral efficiency to 10 bit/s/Hz and even approaching the Shannon limit. We describe fundamental technologies for ultrahigh spectral density coherent QAM transmission and present experimental results on polarization-multiplexed 256 QAM coherent optical transmission using heterodyne and homodyne detection with a frequency-stabilized laser and an optical phase-locked loop technique. In this experiment, Raman amplifiers are newly adopted to decrease the signal power, which can reduce the fiber nonlinearity. As a result, the power penalty was reduced from 5.3 to 2.0 dB. A 64 Gbit/s data signal is successfully transmitted over 160 km with an optical bandwidth of 5.4 GHz.
Seiji OKAMOTO Kazushige YONENAGA Kengo HORIKOSHI Mitsuteru YOSHIDA Yutaka MIYAMOTO Masahito TOMIZAWA Takeshi OKAMOTO Hidemi NOGUCHI Jun-ichi ABE Junichiro MATSUI Hisao NAKASHIMA Yuichi AKIYAMA Takeshi HOSHIDA Hiroshi ONAKA Kenya SUGIHARA Soichiro KAMETANI Kazuo KUBO Takashi SUGIHARA
We describe a field experiment of flexible modulation format adaptation on a real-time 400Gbit/s/ch DSP-LSI. This real-time DSP-LSI features OSNR estimation, practical simplified back propagation, and high gain soft-decision forward error correction. With these techniques, we have successfully demonstrated modulation format allocation and transmission of 56-channel 400Gbit/s-2SC-PDM-16QAM and 200Gbit/s-2SC-PDM-QPSK signals in 216km and 3246km standard single mode fiber, respectively.