Spectrally efficient long-haul optical networking using 112-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed 16-QAM

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 547-556

  Winzer, P J ^a   Gnauck, A H ^a   Doerr, C R ^a   Magarini, M ^b   Buhl, L L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

100G ethernet; Coherent detection; Optical networking; Optical transmission; Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

100G ETHERNET; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BIT ERROR RATIO (BER); COHERENT DETECTION; FILTER ADAPTATION; LASER FREQUENCY; LASER PHASE NOISE; LINE RATE; LONG HAUL; LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION; NARROWBAND OPTICAL FILTERING; OPTICAL NETWORKING; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXERS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; THEORETICAL LIMITS; WAVE FORMS; WDM CHANNELS;

EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; LASERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84868318005     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2031922     Document Type: Article

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