Coherent 100G field trial over installed fiber links: Investigating key network scenarios and applications [Invited]

Author

Zhou, Yu Rong ; Smith, Kevin ; Wilkinson, Mark ; Payne, Roger ; Lord, Andrew ; Bennett, Tex ; Frankel, Michael

Author_Institution

BT Innovate & Design, British Telecommun. plc, Ipswich, UK

Volume

4

Issue

11

fYear

2012

Abstract

We report a successful coherent 100G field trial over installed fiber links of a total of 769 km, investigating the performance of coherent technology for key network scenarios and applications including network upgrade, a new dispersion-compensation-module-less network design, polarization mode dispersion tolerance and support for alien wavelengths. In addition, we evaluated the end to end transport performance of 100GE and 10GE client signals.

Keywords

optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; coherent technology; dispersion-compensation-module-less network design; end to end transport performance; fiber links; field trial; polarization mode dispersion tolerance; Adaptive optics; Color; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical variables measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Phase modulation; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0620

Type

jour

DOI

10.1364/JOCN.4.000B35

Filename

6360167