Record 202.3 Tb/s Transmission over Field-Deployed Fibre using 15.6 THz S+C+L-Bands

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Yang, Jiaqian; Sillekens, Eric; Puttnam, Benjamin J.; Schanpal, Ronit; Jarmolovicius, Mindaugas; Aparecido, Romulo; Buglia, Henrique; Luis, Ruben S.; Stolte, Ralf; Bayvel, Polina; Killey, Robert I.

Abstract:
Ultra-wideband, field-deployed metropolitan fibre transmission is experimentally demonstrated, measuring a record 202.3 Tb/s GMI and 189.5 Tb/s after decoding with 20.9 dBm launch power and lumped amplification only. An experimentally-optimised 5 dB pre-tilt over the 15.6 THz optical bandwidth was applied to overcome ISRS.