Capacity Trends and Limits of Optical Communication Networks

By René-Jean Essiambre, Robert W. Tkach. Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012

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From Scaling Disparities to Integrated Parallelism: A Decathlon for a Decade (2017, background): “6, showing two independent numerical estimates of the (dual-polarization) Shannon limit of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) [69], [80], [81] as well as a collection of record experimental results (using a wide variety of fiber types).”
Modeling of Nonlinear Signal Distortion in Fiber-Optic Networks (2013, background): “Further significant increase of the data rate is expected through the use of multicore/multimode fibers [1], but while this development is exciting, there are also significant challenges, e.”
On Probabilistic Shaping of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for the Nonlinear Fiber Channel (2016, background): “Most of the huge bandwidth of fiber systems is in use [2] and the capacity of the optical core network cannot keep up with the traffic growth [3].”