62 research outputs found
Experimental investigation of a 16-dimensional modulation format for long-haul multi-core fiber transmission
We experimentally investigate a 16-dimensional modulation format applicable to multi-core fiber transmission, and demonstrate over 14,000 km transmission for a BER of 1E-3, a 55 % improvement in reach compared to DP-BPSK for the same spectral efficiency
Pilot-Aided Joint-Channel Carrier-Phase Estimation in Space-Division Multiplexed Multicore Fiber Transmission
The performance of pilot-aided joint-channel carrier-phase estimation (CPE)
in space-division multiplexed multicore fiber (MCF) transmission with
correlated phase noise is studied. To that end, a system model describing
uncoded MCF transmission where the phase noise comprises a common laser phase
noise, in addition to core- and polarization-specific phase drifts, is
introduced. It is then shown that the system model can be regarded as a special
case of a multidimensional random-walk phase-noise model. A pilot-aided CPE
algorithm developed for this model is used to evaluate two strategies, namely
joint-channel and per-channel CPE. To quantify the performance differences
between the two strategies, their respective phase-noise tolerances are
assessed through Monte Carlo simulations of uncoded transmission for different
modulation formats, pilot overheads, laser linewidths, numbers of spatial
channels, and degrees of phase-noise correlation across the channels. For 20
GBd transmission with 200 kHz combined laser linewidth and 1% pilot overhead,
joint-channel CPE yields up to 3.4 dB improvement in power efficiency or 25.5%
increased information rate. Moreover, through MCF transmission experiments, the
system model is validated and the strategies are compared in terms of
bit-error-rate performance versus transmission distance for uncoded
transmission of different modulation formats. Up to 21% increase in
transmission reach is observed for 1% pilot overhead through the use of
joint-channel CPE
Joint Phase Tracking for Multicore Transmission with Correlated Phase Noise
Space-division multiplexed transmission over multicore fibers offers potential for joint-core processing to compensate for correlated phase noise. We review methods that take advantage of the phase-noise correlation across cores and assess their benefits in terms of transmission reach and pilot-rate requirements
Pb/s, homogeneous, single-mode, multi-core fiber systems
We discuss multi Pb/s transmission using homogeneous, single-mode, multi-core fibers. We outline the key components of a recent high capacity demonstration, the consequences of fiber properties and the potential for enhanced efficiency from spatial-super-channel transmission
Real-time, Software-Defined, GPU-Based Receiver Field Trial
We demonstrate stable real-time operation of a software-defined, GPU-based
receiver over a metropolitan network. Massive parallelization is exploited for
implementing direct-detection and coherent Kramers-Kronig detection in real
time at 2 and 1 GBaud, respectively.Comment: Accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Optical
Communications (ECOC) 202
Field Trial of a Flexible Real-time Software-defined GPU-based Optical Receiver
We introduce a flexible, software-defined real-time multi-modulation format
receiver implemented on an off-the-shelf general-purpose graphics processing
unit (GPU). The flexible receiver is able to process 2 GBaud 2-, 4-, 8-, and
16-ary pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) signals as well as 1 GBaud 4-, 16- and
64-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals, with the latter detected
using a Kramers-Kronig (KK) coherent receiver. Experimental performance
evaluation is shown for back-to-back. In addition, by using the JGN high speed
R&D network testbed, performance is evaluated after transmission over 91 km
field-deployed optical fiber and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers
(ROADMs).Comment: Accepted for publication at Journal of Lightwave Technology, already
available via JLT Early Access, see supplied DOI. This v2 version of the
article is improved w.r.t. v1 after JLT peer-review. This article is a longer
journal version of the conference paper: S.P. van der Heide, et al.,
Real-time, Software-Defined, GPU-Based Receiver Field Trial, ECOC 2020 paper
We1E5, also via arXiv:2010.1433
Modulation and detection for multicore superchannels with correlated phase noise [Invited]
SDM fibers offer new opportunities and challenges for joint transmitter and receiver processing. We review multidimensional modulation and detection theory, describe algorithms for phase tracking and detection over spatial superchannels, and present some experimental results
High capacity transmission with few-mode fibers
We experimentally investigate high-capacity few-mode fiber transmission for short and medium-haul optical links. In separate experiments, we demonstrate C + L band transmission of 283 Tbit/s over a single 30 km span and recirculating loop transmission of 159 Tbit/s over 1045 km graded-index three mode fiber. The first experiment reached a data-rate per fiber mode within 90% of the record data-rates reported in the same transmission bands for single-mode fibers. The second experiment demonstrated the feasibility of reaching high data-rates over long distance few-mode fiber transmission, despite strong impairments due to mode-dependent loss and differential mode delay
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