• DocumentCode
    3699693
  • Title

    Hitless spectrum defragmentation in flexible grid optical network using maximum ratio combining in wavelength diversity transmission

  • Author

    Shuto Yamamoto;Kohei Saito;Akira Naka;Hideki Maeda

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose a spectrum defragmentation system using maximum ratio combining in wavelength diversity digital coherent transmission. We evaluate the maximum ratio combining characteristics and experimentally show hitless defragmentation of a 128-Gb/s PDM-QPSK signal.
  • Keywords
    "Diversity reception","Optical transmitters","Q-factor","Optical receivers","Optical fiber networks","Optical signal processing","Optical fibers"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340129
  • Filename
    7340129