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Experimental Demonstration of Capacity Increase and Rate-Adaptation by Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM

Information Theory 2015-09-30 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We implemented a flexible transmission system operating at adjustable data rate and fixed bandwidth, baudrate, constellation and overhead using probabilistic shaping. We demonstrated in a transmission experiment up to 15% capacity and 43% reach increase versus 200 Gbit/s 16-QAM.

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@article{arxiv.1509.08836,
  title  = {Experimental Demonstration of Capacity Increase and Rate-Adaptation by Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM},
  author = {Fred Buchali and Georg Böcherer and Wilfried Idler and Laurent Schmalen and Patrick Schulte and Fabian Steiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.08836},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for presentation as postdeadline paper at ECOC 2015