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

Sjoerd van der Heide; Bin Chen; Menno van den Hout; Gabriele Liga; Ton Koonen; Hartmut Hafermann; Alex Alvarado; Chigo Okonkwo

doi:10.23919/PS.2019.8817687

paper

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

arXiv:1904.12561 · doi:10.23919/PS.2019.8817687

Abstract

Using a novel geometrically-shaped four-dimensional modulation format, we transmitted 11x200 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.

Contributed paper for OECC/PSC. Tue. Jul 9, 2019 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM JST