400G Single Carrier Transmission in 50 GHz Grid Enabled by Adaptive Digital Pre-Distortion

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2016.th3a.3
• Publication Date: 2016-03-14T15:35:03Z
• Authors: Ginni Khanna; Bernhard Spinnler; Stefano Calabrò; Erik De Man; Uwe Feiste; Tomislav Drenski; Norbert Hanik
• Keywords: Distortion (music); Spectral Efficiency

An adaptive digital pre-distortion method to enable single carrier 400G DP-128QAM transmission over 328 km fiber with 30% FEC is presented. Experimental comparison in reach and spectral efficiency made DP-64QAM.