65Tb/s Transoceanic Transmission Using Probabilistically-Shaped PDM-64QAM

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

Proceedings: ECOC 2016 – Post Deadline Paper

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Ghazisaeidi, Amirhossein; Jauregui Ruiz, Ivan Fernandez de; Rios-Muller, Rafael; Tran, Patrice; Brindel, Patrick; Meseguer, Alexis Carbo; Charlet, Gabriel; Renaudier, Jeremie (Nokia Bell Labs, Paris-Saclay, Nozay, France)
Schmalen, Laurent; Hu, Qian; Buchali, Fred (Nokia Bell Labs, Lorenzstr. 10, Stuttgart, Germany)

Abstract:
We report on a C+L-band transoceanic transmission using capacity-approaching probabilistically-shaped 64QAM. Digital nonlinear compensation and adaptive-rate spatially-coupled LDPC decoding enable transmission of 65 Tb/s over 6600km, with spectral efficiency of 7.3 b/s/Hz.