100 × 120-Gb/s PDM 64-QAM transmission over 160 km using linewidth-tolerant pilotless digital coherent detection
- 1 September 2010
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
We demonstrate 11.2-Tb/s transmission of 12.5-GHz spaced 120-Gb/s PDM 64-QAM signals over 160 km by using a digital coherent receiver with pilotless demodulation algorithms. The spectral efficiency of 9.0 b/s/Hz is the highest reported for 100-Gb/s/ch-class transmission.Keywords
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