Experimental Demonstration of Eight-dimensional Modulation Formats for Long-haul Optical Transmission
arXiv:1907.01529 · doi:10.1049/cp.2019.0924
Abstract
Two novel 5.5 bit/4D modulation formats are experimentally demonstrated to transmit over 9680 km of SSMF. A reach increase of 29.4% over the 6 bit/4D PM-8QAM is shown. Furthermore, increased nonlinear tolerance with respect to PM-8QAM is shown.
ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communication) 2019 submission. Accepted for oral presentation at 11:15 on 2019/09/25 in the "Modulation and Coding" session