Title :
Seamless Sub-Band Wavelength Conversion of Tb/s-Class CO-OFDM Superchannels
Author :
You, Shi ; Li, Cong ; Yang, Qingxiong ; Luo, Ming ; Qiu, Yijie ; Xiao, X. ; Yu, Son-Cheol
Author_Institution :
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate a sub-band wavelength conversion scheme based on four-wave mixing in high-nonlinear fiber for multiple Tb/s-class superchannel coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing networks. Combined with the wavelength selective switches in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, the overlapped spectra are efficiently relocated and almost seamlessly formed into a new superchannel with very little spectral efficiency degradation.
Keywords :
Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength conversion; coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM); reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs); superchannel; wavelength selective switches (WSS);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2014.2303812
