• DocumentCode
    2849299
  • Title

    Low cost comb source in a coherent wavelength division multiplexed system

  • Author

    Maher, Robert ; Anandarajah, P.M. ; Ibrahim, Selwan K. ; Barry, Liam P. ; Ellis, Andrew D. ; Perry, Philip ; Phelan, Richard ; Kelly, Brian ; Gorman, James O.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. for Networks & Commun. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A low cost seven sub-carrier optical comb source in a 74.648Gb/s coherent wavelength division multiplexed (CoWDM) system is investigated. A spectral efficiency of 0.64bit/s/Hz and an average receiver sensitivity of -26dBm were achieved.
  • Keywords
    wavelength division multiplexing; bit rate 74.648 Gbit/s; coherent wavelength division multiplexed system; low cost seven sub-carrier optical comb source; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Optical variables control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621515
  • Filename
    5621515