[TuB1] Long-Haul Transmission Systems

[TuB1-2] 11,700 km Transmission at 4.8 bit/4D-sym via Four-dimensional Geometrically-shaped Polarization-Ring-Switching Modulation

Best Paper Award

〇Sjoerd van der Heide¹, Bin Chen^1,3, Menno van den Hout¹, Gabriele Liga¹, Ton Koonen¹, Hartmut Hafermann², Alex Alvarado¹, Chigo Okonkwo¹ (¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ²Huawei Technologies France SASU, France, ³Hefei Univ. of Technology, China)

キーワード：Advanced Modulation, Coding and Multiplexing., Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro applications including data-center interconnect

Using a novel geometrically-shaped four-dimensional modulation format, we transmitted 11×200 Gbit/s DWDM at 4.8 bit/4D-sym over 7,925 km and 11,700 km using EDFA-only and hybrid amplification, respectively. A reach increase of 16% is achieved over PM-8QAM.