TY - GEN
T1 - The Information Capacity of the Fiber-Optic Channel
T2 - 2024 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2024
AU - Shtaif, Mark
AU - Antonelli, Cristian
AU - Mecozzi, Antonio
AU - Chen, Xi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - We discuss the challenges in assessing the theoretical limits to the throughput of fiber-optic communications systems and argue that the uncertainty of available information capacity limits is within a range of 1.17 bit/s/Hz. We show that record experiments are within 20 to 30 percent from these limits in terrestrial single-mode fiber systems for metro to long-haul transmission. It appears that the continued scaling of optical communications will have to rely on parallelism and space-division multiplexed fiber transmission.
AB - We discuss the challenges in assessing the theoretical limits to the throughput of fiber-optic communications systems and argue that the uncertainty of available information capacity limits is within a range of 1.17 bit/s/Hz. We show that record experiments are within 20 to 30 percent from these limits in terrestrial single-mode fiber systems for metro to long-haul transmission. It appears that the continued scaling of optical communications will have to rely on parallelism and space-division multiplexed fiber transmission.
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AN - SCOPUS:85207641807
T3 - Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Proceedings Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2024
BT - Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Proceedings Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2024
PB - Optical Society of America
Y2 - 24 March 2024 through 28 March 2024
ER -