Title :
Experimental demonstration of colourless, directionless, contentionless ROADM using 1×43 WSS and PLC-based transponder aggregator for 127-Gbit/s DP-QPSK system
Author :
Sakamaki, Y. ; Kawai, T. ; Komukai, T. ; Fukutoku, M. ; Kataoka, T. ; Watanabe, T. ; Ishii, Y.
Author_Institution :
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a colourless, directionless, contentionless ROADM consisting of 1×43 WSSs and PLC-based transponder aggregators. The experimental results show that the introduction of a C/D/C-less function causes no significant penalty for 127-Gbit/s DP-QPSK signal transmission.
Keywords :
optical communication; phase shift keying; 1×43 WSS; C/D/C-less function; DP-QPSK signal transmission; DP-QPSK system; PLC-based transponder aggregator; bit rate 127 Gbit/s; colourless directionless contentionless ROADM; Monitoring; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical switches; Q factor; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
