Title :
Fast Wavelength Switching 112Gb/s coherent burst mode transceiver for dynamic optical networks
Author :
Maher, Robert ; Millar, David S. ; Savory, Seb J. ; Thomsen, Benn C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Opt. Networks Group, UCL, London, UK
Abstract :
Using commercially available semiconductor tunable lasers with SOA blanking and pre-emphasis, we demonstrate fast synchronous switching of a multichannel 112Gb/s DP-QPSK burst mode transceiver in an 8-channel 240km DWDM optical link with 200ns reconfiguration time.
Keywords :
laser tuning; optical switches; optical transceivers; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM optical link; SOA blanking; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; coherent burst mode transceiver; dense wavelength division multiplexing; distance 240 km; dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying; dynamic optical networks; fast synchronous switching; fast wavelength switching; multichannel DP-QPSK burst mode transceiver; semiconductor optical amplifiers; semiconductor tunable lasers; time 200 ns; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
