Achievable Information Rate of Nonlinear Inverse Synthesis Based 16QAM OFDM Transmission

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:
Le, Son T.; Phillips, Ian D.; Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E.; Kamalian, Morteza; Ellis, Andrew D.; Harper, Paul; Turitsyn, Sergei K. (Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK)

Abstract:
We experimentally investigate, for the first time, the achievable information rate of the nonlinear inverse synthesis system with 16QAM OFDM format employing hard and soft FEC, showing that 3 bits/symbol can be achieved over a distance of 1632 km.