Title :
Super-channel architectures for in-service capacity expansion of CWDM/DWDM systems
Author_Institution :
NY City Coll. of Technol., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA
fDate :
29 June-3 July 2003
Abstract :
Super-channel architectures enable many narrow spaced wavelengths to be nested into one CWDM (coarse WDM) or DWDM channel at the rates up to 10 Gb/s. This gives a low-cost, growth on demand, capacity upgrades as an overlay to existing CWDM/DWDM systems.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; DWDM; capacity expansion; coarse WDM; super-channel architectures; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Signal to noise ratio; Time division multiplexing; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7816-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2003.1263150
