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74.38 Tb/s Transmission Over 6300 km Single Mode Fibre Enabled by C plus L Amplification and Geometrically Shaped PDM-64QAM

Ionescu, M; Lavery, D; Edwards, A; Sillekens, E; Semrau, D; Galdino, L; Killey, RI; ... Bayvel, P; + view all (2020) 74.38 Tb/s Transmission Over 6300 km Single Mode Fibre Enabled by C plus L Amplification and Geometrically Shaped PDM-64QAM. Journal of Lightwave Technology , 38 (2) pp. 531-537. 10.1109/JLT.2019.2954458. Green open access

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Abstract

Ultrawide-bandwidth optical amplification over almost 90 nm, covering the C+L bands, is described. Complemented by system-tailored geometrical constellation shaping and nonlinearity compensation, it enabled a record capacity transmission of 74.38 Tb/s over 6,300 km of G.654 single-mode fibre. The hybrid scheme, combining backward Raman pre-amplification with EDFA, significantly improves the average effective noise figure across the entire bandwidth, allowing the use of span lengths of 70 km. The system-tailored GS-64QAM constellation was optimised to both linear link impairments and transceiver nonlinearities, improving the gap to the AWGN channel capacity relative to square 64QAM from 0.6 bit/symbol to 0.35 bit/symbol. We experimentally evaluated the system performance using the bit-wise achievable information rate (AIR) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the end of transmission, as well as post SD-FEC BER.

Type: Article
Title: 74.38 Tb/s Transmission Over 6300 km Single Mode Fibre Enabled by C plus L Amplification and Geometrically Shaped PDM-64QAM
Location: San Diego, CA
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2954458
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2019.2954458
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Electrical & Electronic, Optics, Telecommunications, Engineering, Broadband C plus L band transoceanic transmission, Raman amplification, Erbium-doped fibre amplifier, nonlinear compensation, geometric constellation shaping
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092014
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