Patrice Tran

Two mode transmission at 2x100Gb/s, over 40km-long prototype few-mode fiber, using LCOS-based programmable mode multiplexer and demultiplexer

We present a novel optical transmission system to experimentally demonstrate the possibility of mode division multiplexing. Its key components are mode multiplexer and demultiplexer based on a programmable liquid crystal on silicon panel, a prototype few-mode fiber, and a 4×4 multiple input multiple output algorithm processing the information of two polarization diversity coherent receivers. Using this system, we transmit two 100 Gb/s PDM-QPSK data streams modulated on two different modes of the prototype few-mode fiber. After 40 km, we obtain Q(2)-factors about 1 dB above the limit for forward error correction.

Mode-Division Multiplexing of 2

We demonstrate one of the first experiments of optical transmission based on mode-division multiplexing over a few-mode optical fiber. The mode multiplexer and demultiplexer are based on a programmable liquid crystal on silicon panel. Using this system, we transmit two 100 Gb/s polarization division multiplexed quaternary phase-shift keying data streams modulated on two different modes of the prototype few-mode fiber. At the receiver, a set of optical coherent detectors with DSP including multiple-input multiple-output algorithms recover the signal and permit to mitigate the crosstalk stemming from imperfect mode conversion.

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We transmit two 100Gb/s PDM-QPSK data streams over two different modes of a 40km-long prototype few-mode fiber. Our experiment is performed with an LCOS-based mode multiplexer/demultiplexer and 4×4 MIMO algorithm in a coherent receiver.

100 Gb/s Channels Using an LCOS-Based Spatial Modulator

A record capacity distance product of 41.8 Petabit/s middotkm is demonstrated. A total of 164 channels are modulated at 100 Gbit/s with PDM-QPSK format, packed with 2 bit/s/Hz information spectral density and recovered by off-line processing in a coherent receiver after 2550 km distance.

Transmission at 2×100Gb/s, over two modes of 40km-long prototype few-mode fiber, using LCOS-based mode multiplexer and demultiplexer

We demonstrate the transmission of 256 polarization-division and wavelength-division multiplexed channels at 42.7 Gbit/s rate over 100 km of TeraLight/sup TM/ fiber. An overall capacity of 10 Tbit/s is achieved in C and L bands at a record 1.28 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency.

Transmission of 16.4-bit/s Capacity Over 2550 km Using PDM QPSK Modulation Format and Coherent Receiver

We report the transmission of a record 6 Tbit/s capacity over 6120 km distance, involving channels modulated at 42.7-Gb/s bit-rate with differential phase-shift keying (DPSK). The performance is found similar to DPSK with subsequent pulse carving, namely RZ-DPSK.

10.2 Tbit/s (256x42.7 Gbit/s PDM/WDM) transmission over 100 km TeraLight/sup TM/ fiber with 1.28 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency

10.2Tb/s capacity is demonstrated over 3/spl times/100km in C and L bands, using 42.7Gb/s channels. The wavelength allocation was chosen while taking into account narrow optical filtering at the transmitter and receiver ends and second-order Raman pumping is used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

WDM transmission at 6-Tbit/s capacity over transatlantic distance, using 42.7-Gb/s differential phase-shift keying without pulse carver

Eighty-one channels spaced by 50 GHz and modulated at 40 Gbit/s are transmitted over 11520 km, thanks to RZ PDM-BPSK modulation, coherent detection, and a new large effective area fibre.

Transmission of 256 wavelength-division and polarization-division-multiplexed channels at 42.7Gb/s (10.2Tb/s capacity) over 3/spl times/100km of TeraLight/spl trade/ fiber

We report on the transmission of 1-Tb/s clusters of channels, composed by four 50-GHz-spaced WDM channels modulated with 40-Gbaud PDM-16QAM. We transmit 22-Tb/s data over 2,400 km, with a spectral efficiency of 5 bit/s/Hz.

Transmission of 81 channels at 40Gbit/s over a transpacific-distance erbium-only link, using PDM-BPSK modulation, coherent detection, and a new large effective area fibre.

We report on the performance of 100 Gb/s coherent non return-to- zero (NRZ-) polarization division multiplexed (PDM-) quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) transmission over 16 x 100 km of standard single mode fibre under constraints of typical transparent terrestrial networks, employing Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifiers. We first evaluate the impact of cross non linear effects onto the performance of 100 Gb/s coherent PDM-QPSK signals and we investigate the impact of shifting one of the polarization multiplexed tributaries by half a symbol duration with respect to the other one. Finally we show that this solution is robust against channel-to-channel cross-talk from transparent nodes and does not suffer from performance degradation stemming from co-propagating 40 Gb/s channels.