We report order-of-magnitude improvements in performance of field-deployable hollow-core fiber cables evidenced by a 38.4Tb/s (800Gb/s-x-48WDM-channels) 20.5km lab-trial using commercial terminal equipment and the demonstration of 1128km/126km reach in full-fill 400/800Gb/s WDM recirculating-loop experiments.
We review some currently discussed solutions for 400 Gbit/s inter-data center WDM transmission for up to 100 km. We focus on direct detected solutions, namely PAM4 and DMT, and present two WDM systems based on these formats.
We demonstrate 32.5 Tbit/s 16QAM Nyquist WDM transmission over a total length of 227 km of SMF-28 without optical dispersion compensation. A number of 325 optical carriers are derived from a single laser and encoded with dual-polarization 16QAM data using sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses. As we use no guard bands, the carriers have a spacing of 12.5 GHz equal to the Nyquist bandwidth of the data. We achieve a high net spectral efficiency of 6.4 bit/s/Hz using a software-defined transmitter which generates the electrical modulator drive signals in real-time.
We demonstrate the first transmission of a new twelve-dimensional modulation format over a three-core coupled-core multicore fiber. The format occupies a single time slot spread across all three linearly-coupled spatial modes and shows improved MI and GMI after transmission compared to PDM-QPSK.
This study presents the design and analysis of deployable cable domes based on the clustered tensegrity structures (CTS). In this paper, the statics and dynamics equations of the CTS are first given. Using a traditional Levy cable dome as an example, we show the approach to modify the Levy dome to a deployable CTS one. The strings to be clustered are determined by the requirement of prestress mode and global stability. The deployment trajectory is proposed by changing the deployment ratio (the ratio between the radius of the inner and outer rings of the cable dome). Then, the quasi-static and dynamic deployment of clustered tensegrity dome is studied. Results show that the proposed CTS cable dome always has one prestress mode and is globally stable in its deployment trajectory. In the deployment process analysis, the dynamics show that the systems dynamic response differs from the quasi-static simulation as the actuation speed increases. That is, for a fast deployment process, quasi-static simulation is not accurate enough. The dynamics effects of the deployment must be considered. The developed approaches can also be used for the design and analysis of various kinds of CTS.
The performance of enumerative sphere shaping (ESS), constant composition distribution matching (CCDM), and uniform signalling are compared at the same forward error correction rate. ESS is shown to offer a reach increase of approximately 10% and 22% compared to CCDM and uniform signalling, respectively.