Detection of a 1 Tb/s superchannel with a single coherent receiver

David S. Millar, Robert Maher, Domanicc Lavery, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Milutin Pajovic, Alex Alvarado, Milen Paskov, Keisuke Kojima, Kieran Parsons, Benn C. Thomsen, Seb J. Savory, Polina Bayvel
2015 2015 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)  
We demonstrate detection of a superchannel with net bit rate in excess of 1 Tb/s with a single coherent receiver. Novel, pilot-aided equalization and carrier recovery algorithms enable detection of an 11 × 10 GBd DP-64QAM Nyquist superchannel (1.32 Tb/s gross bit rate).
doi:10.1109/ecoc.2015.7341618 fatcat:hqg2fua46rgspaneeo66esb46m