We report a 3 dB increase in the nonlinear threshold of a 64*0.5Gbaud 16-QAM continuous-nonlinear-spectrum modulated signal by nonlinear multiplexing with QPSK modulated multi-solitons, showing the first ever fully nonlinear-spectrum modulated system in the highly nonlinear regime.
@article{arxiv.1611.08420,
title = {Demonstration of Fully Nonlinear Spectrum Modulated System in the Highly Nonlinear Optical Transmission Regime},
author = {Vahid Aref and Son T. Le and Henning Buelow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08420},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
The paper was presented in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2016, Sept. 2016