Abstract
We demonstrated a substantial improvement in FEC margin at 40 Gb/s using bit- synchronously modulated RZ-DQPSK. We transmitted 28⨉40 Gb/s CRZ-DQPSK channels over 6,550 km with ~2 dB of actual FEC margin, without any PMD compensation.
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