Field Demonstration of 1 Tbit/s Super-Channel Network Using Probabilistically Shaped Constellations

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Idler, Wilfried; Buchali, Fred; Schmalen, Laurent; Lach, Eugen (Nokia, Bell Labs, Lorenzstr. 10, 70435 Stuttgart, Germany)
Braun, Ralf-Peter (Deutsche Telekom, T-Labs, Winterfeldtstr. 21, 10781 Berlin, Germany)
Boecherer, Georg; Schulte, Patrick; Steiner, Fabian (Technische Universität München, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany)

Abstract:
We successfully tested the suitability of probabilistically shaped constellations in field environment. We performed 1 Tbit/s 4-carriers super-channel transmission in the German nationwide backbone network with an extended family of probabilistically shaped constellations using 16QAM, 36QAM and 64QAM.