Title :
Hybrid 224-Gb/s and 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK transmission at 50-GHz channel spacing over 1200-km dispersion-managed LEAF® spans and 3 ROADMs
Author :
Xie, Chongjin ; Raybon, Gregory ; Winzer, Peter J.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We transmit a mix of 224-Gb/s and 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK channels at a 50-GHz spacing and 3-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency over 1200-km dispersion-managed LEAF® spans with 3 ROADMs and over 2000 km without ROADMs.
Keywords :
channel spacing; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; PDM-QPSK transmission; ROADM; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; bit rate 224 Gbit/s; channel spacing; dispersion-managed LEAF span; frequency 50 GHz; polarization-division-multiplexed quadrature-phase-shift keying; Bandwidth; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
