Achievable information rate of nonlinear inverse synthesis based 16QAM OFDM transmission
Son Thai Le, Ian Phillips, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Morteza Kamalian-Kopae, Andrew D. Ellis, Paul Harper, Sergei Konstantinovich Turitsyn · European Conference on Optical Communication · 2016
We experimentally investigate, for the first time, the achievable information rate of the nonlinear inverse synthesis system with 16QAM OFDM format employing hard and soft FEC, showing that 3 bits/symbol can be achieved over a distance of 1632 km.