One Terahertz Full-Field Digital Back-Propagation over 3000 km

We implement full-field digital back-propagation with a 1-THz receiver using 20 synchronous frequency-adjacent coherent receivers with digital stitching and a frequency-comb local oscillator. Relative to electronic dispersion compensation, per-channel DBP and full-field DBP achieve throughput gains of 2.2\% and 5.4\%, respectively.

On the Optimum Energy-per-bit Launch Power in Coherent Hollow-core Fibre Transmission Systems

We investigate the optimum energy per bit in hollow-core-fibre transmission systems. We show that a 1000 km C-band link can achieve a 41.5% reduction in total power consumption when operating at the minimum energy-per-bit launch power with only 2.2% throughput penalty.

423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission

We demonstrate OESCL-band same-wavelength bi-directional transmission over 60 km HCF with 42.5 THz bandwidth, achieving GMIs comparable with the highest unidirectional SMF data-rates in both directions, with an aggregate of 423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s.

Gas Line Absorption Mitigation in Hollow-Core Fibre using Spectral Pre-Equalisation

We study the impact of CO 2 absorption on hollow-core fibre transmission. Using spectral pre-equalisation, we digitally post-compensate gas-line absorption and show a 5.5 dB reduction in Q-factor penalty, outperforming a 383-tap equaliser by 1.3 dB.

Ultra-Wideband Transmission Systems From an Energy Perspective: Which Band is Next?

Measuring the power efficiency of the state-of-the-art OESCL-band amplifiers, we show that 1000 km OESCL-band systems can achieve 2.98x greater throughput for +48% higher energy-per-bit compared to CL-band transmission only.

Dual optical frequency comb downconversion of D-band mm-wave signals

We demonstrate a dual optical frequency comb concept that down-converts arbitrary narrowband D-band (110-170 GHz) signals to baseband without any filter or optical/RF frequency tuning, using low frequency RF components.

Measurement and Analysis of the Power Consumption of Hybrid-Amplified SCL-band Links

We studied the power consumption of hybrid-amplified SCL-band links using commercial benchtop amplifiers and Raman pumps. We show a reduction in energy per bit for multi-span hybrid Raman amplified links of up to 26% versus lumped amplification.