Terabit Superchannel Transmission: A Nyquist-WDM Approach  

作　　者：Hung-Chang Chien Jianjun Yu Zhensheng Jia Ze Dong 

机构地区：[1]Optics Lab, ZTE USA Inc., Morristown,NJ 07960, USA [2]ZTE Corporation,Shenzhen 518057, P. R. China

出　　处：《ZTE Communications》2012年第4期39-44,共6页中兴通讯技术（英文版）

基　　金：supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2012AA011303)

摘　　要：In this work, we focus on enhancing the network reach in terabit superchannel transmission by using a noise-suppressed Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing （NS-N-WDM） technique for polarization multiplexing quadrature phase-shift keying （PM-QPSK） subchannels at different symbol-rate-to-subchannel-spacing ratios up to 1.28. For the first time, we experimentally compare the transmission reach of this emerging technique with that of no-guard-interval coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （NGI-CO-OFDM） on the same testbed. At BER of 2 x 10 3 and 100 Gbit/s per channel, an NGI-CO-OFDM terabit superchannel can transmit over a maximum of 3200 km SMF-28 with EDFA-only amplification, and an NS-N-WDM terabit superchannel can transmit over a maximum of 2800 km SMF-28 with EDFA-only amplification. Assuming different coding gain, 11 x 112 Gbit/s per channel with hard-decision （HD） forward-error correction （FEC） and 11 × 128 Gbit/s per channel NS-N-WDM transmission with soft-decision （SD） FEC can be achieved over a maximum of 2100 km and 2170 km, respectively. These are almost equal and were achieved using digital noise filtering and one-bit maximum likelihood sequence estimation （MLSE） at the receiver DSP. Characteristics including the back-to-back （BTB） curves, the ADC bandwidth requirement, and the tolerance to unequal subchannel power of an NS-N-WDM superchannel were also evaluated.In this work, we focus on enhancing the network reach in terabit superchannel transmission by using a noise-suppressed Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing （NS-N-WDM） technique for polarization multiplexing quadrature phase-shift keying （PM-QPSK） subchannels at different symbol-rate-to-subchannel-spacing ratios up to 1.28. For the first time, we experimentally compare the transmission reach of this emerging technique with that of no-guard-interval coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing （NGI-CO-OFDM） on the same testbed. At BER of 2 x 10 3 and 100 Gbit/s per channel, an NGI-CO-OFDM terabit superchannel can transmit over a maximum of 3200 km SMF-28 with EDFA-only amplification, and an NS-N-WDM terabit superchannel can transmit over a maximum of 2800 km SMF-28 with EDFA-only amplification. Assuming different coding gain, 11 x 112 Gbit/s per channel with hard-decision （HD） forward-error correction （FEC） and 11 × 128 Gbit/s per channel NS-N-WDM transmission with soft-decision （SD） FEC can be achieved over a maximum of 2100 km and 2170 km, respectively. These are almost equal and were achieved using digital noise filtering and one-bit maximum likelihood sequence estimation （MLSE） at the receiver DSP. Characteristics including the back-to-back （BTB） curves, the ADC bandwidth requirement, and the tolerance to unequal subchannel power of an NS-N-WDM superchannel were also evaluated.

关 键 词：optical OFDM Nyquist WDM MLSE 

分 类 号：TN761.8[电子电信—电路与系统]