Evaluation of the Link Budget Increase using Error-Tolerant TCPs for Optical Communication in Nonlinear Regime on 200G PM-16QAM Real-time Signal Demodulation

Abstract

We evaluated TCP/IP data transfer throughput using real-time 200G PM-16QAM signal over 75km SMF in the nonlinear regime. We show the validity of TCP/IP with an additional 0.2 dB increase in link budget in the nonlinear regime compared to 0.3 dB in the linear regime.