The State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technology and Network under China Information and Communication Technologies Group Corporation (CICT), set a world record in the field last November, achieving 3.03 Pbit/s (wavelength division multiplexed (WDM)/space division multiplexing (SDM) combined transmission over 19-core fiber by using 680 wavelength channels with 25-GHz spacing, covering 17 THz bandwidth of S, C, and L-band.
The study was published in the journal of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. About six months later, the lab broke its own world record and achieved a total transmission capacity of 4.1 Pbit/s with a net transmission capacity of 3.61 Pbit/s, an increase of nearly 40 percent over last year’s record.
The R&D team optimized and upgraded the optical transmission system architecture and its digital signal processing algorithm.
Keeping the 17 THz bandwidth of S, C, and L-band, the team optimized some key optoelectronic devices in the system to equal the spectrum in an ultra-wide optical domain, improving the performance of transmission channels in different bands.
In the meanwhile, they adopted an advanced ultra-high-order probabilistic constellation shaping algorithm to make full use of the transmission capacity of 680 wavelength channels in the S, C, and L-band.
Based on the probabilistically-shaped (PCS)-256 quadrature modulation (QAM) and PCS-64QAM formats, and performance differences of each fiber core, the team maximized the transmission capacity of each core and channel by adjusting the information entropy of the loading signal.
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