Experimental Comparison of Average-Power Constrained and Peak-Power Constrained 64QAM under Optimal Clipping in 400Gbps Unamplified Coherent Links

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:
Ng, Wing-Chau; Li, Chuandong

Abstract:
We experimentally demonstrated an end-to-end link budget optimization over clipping in 400Gbps unamplified links, showing that the clipped MB distribution outperforms the peak-power constrained 64QAM by 1dB link budget.