Experimental Demonstration of Capacity Increase and Rate-Adaptation by Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM
Fred Buchali, Georg Böcherer, W. Idler, Laurent Schmalen, Patrick Schulte, Fabian Steiner · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015
We implemented a flexible transmission system operating at adjustable data rate and fixed bandwidth, baudrate, constellation and overhead using probabilistic shaping. We demonstrated in a transmission experiment up to 15% capacity and 43% reach increase versus 200 Gbit/s 16-QAM.