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Actually we know that a single mode fibre (there would typically quite a lot of them in a cable) can carry around 100 Tb/s in the C band (used by most systems d
by cycomanic 2y ago
Actually we know that a single mode fibre (there would typically quite a lot of them in a cable) can carry around 100 Tb/s in the C band (used by most systems due to amplifier availability) over about 100km. Research systems have reached that limit and commercial systems are not very far off.
- oh_my_goodness 2y agoIs that right? The C band is only 4 or 5 THz wide, so that's impressive packing. (I'm way out of date, I know there is QAM and whatever.)
- pezezin 2y agoModern DWDM systems use a channel spacing of 75/100 GHz, so you easily fit more than 50 channel in a single fibre.
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- cycomanic 2y agoFor the super high capacity demonstrations, 256 QAM and/or probabalistic/geometric shaping is typically used so we get to about 12 bit/s/Hz (accounting for FEC and pilot overheads). Interestingly, data rates are mainly limited by the transceivers (RF amplifiers, DAC/ADC ENOB... is not that great at 25-100GHz, which is required for the 50+Gbaud symbol rates).