Title :
1500-km transmission of 100-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK with 10 cascaded 50-GHz wavelength selective switches
Author :
Zhang, B. ; Malouin, C. ; Liao, G. ; Liu, S. ; Wang, P. ; Washburn, H. ; Yuan, J. ; Schmidt, T.J.
Author_Institution :
Opnext, Inc., Los Gatos, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate experimentally penalty-free transmission of 127-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK signals through 10 cascaded 50-GHz commercial WSS over 1500-km SMF. Simulation results show that more than 40 cascades of such 50-GHz liquid-crystal based WSS is feasible.
Keywords :
light coherence; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; coherent PM-QPSK; frequency 50 GHz; wavelength selective switches; Bandwidth; Filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Quadrature phase shift keying; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
