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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 6439-6447Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006439
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- Agilent University
- Polytec GmbH, OFS Norcross
- German BMBF
- Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics (KSOP)
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We demonstrate for the first time transmission of 54 Gbit/s and 48 Gbit/s over 44 km and 150 km, respectively, utilizing an optical bandwidth of only 3 GHz. We used polarization division multiplexed 512QAM and 256QAM modulation formats in combination with Nyquist pulse shaping having virtually zero roll-off. The resulting spectral efficiencies range up to 18 bit/s/Hz and 16 bit/s/Hz, respectively. Taking into account the overhead required for forward error correction, the occupied signal bandwidth corresponds to net spectral efficiencies of 14.4 bit/s/Hz and 15 bit/s/Hz, which could be achieved in a wavelength division multiplexed network without spectral guard bands. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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