Transmission performance of mixed line-rate and format DWDM traffic using a 10×10Gb/s photonic integrated transceiver array for low-cost metro networks

Author

Bougioukos, M. ; Gleeson, L. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Spyropoulou, M. ; Dris, S. ; Magri, R. ; Camera, M. ; Klonidis, D. ; Tomkos, I. ; Schrenk, B. ; Bakopoulos, P. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Kouloumentas, Ch ; Rogers, D. ; Poustie, A. ; Maxwell, G. ; Stoffer, R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report on the transmission performance of a 10×10Gb/s low-cost photonic integrated transceiver comprising a reflective SOA-based laser array and a reflective EAM array over 825km under mixed 10G/40G traffic conditions at 50GHz grid.

Keywords

integrated optics; optical fibre networks; optical transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; distance 825 km; laser array; metro network; mixed format DWDM; mixed line rate DWDM; photonic integrated transceiver array; reflective EAM array; reflective SOA; transmission performance; Arrays; Bit error rate; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0262-3

Type

conf

Filename

6192024