13.5-Tb/s (135 × 111-Gb/s/ch) No-Guard-Interval Coherent OFDM Transmission over 6,248 km using SNR Maximized Second-order DRA in the Extended L-band

• DOI: 10.1364/nfoec.2009.pdpb5
• Publication Date: 2013-04-30T14:45:44Z
• Authors: H. Masuda; E. Yamazaki; A. Sano; T. Yoshimatsu; T. Kobayashi; E. Yoshida; Y. Miyamoto; S. Matsuoka; Y. Takatori; M. Mizoguchi; K. Okada; K. Hagimoto; T. Yamada; S. Kamei
• Keywords: Guard interval; Guard (computer science); Raman amplification

By employing 111Gb/s no-guard-interval coherent OFDM and SNR maximized second-order distributed Raman amplification in the extended L-band, we demonstrate record capacity-distance product of 84.3Petabit/s.km (13.5Tb/s × 6,248km), also 1Tb/s transmission over 9,612km.