Experimental Comparison of Average-Power Constrained and Peak-Power Constrained 64QAM under Optimal Clipping in 400Gbps Unamplified Coherent Links
Wing-Chau Ng, Chuandong Li
TL;DR
An end-to-end link budget optimization over clipping in 400Gbps unamplified links is experimentally demonstrated, showing that the clipped MB distribution outperforms the peak-power constrained 64QAM by 1dB link budget.
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrated an end-to-end link budget optimization over clipping in 400Gbps unamplified links, showing that the clipped MB distribution outperforms the peak-power constrained 64QAM by 1dB link budget.