Title :
Filtering effects of cascaded flex-grid roadms with high spectral resolution filters on the transmission of Nyquist and quasi-Nyquist WDM super-channels
Author :
Torres-Ferrera, Pablo ; Rivas-Moscoso, Jose Manuel ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Marom, Dan M. ; Tomkos, Ioannis
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Eng., Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Abstract :
A cascade of two-stage coarse and fine WSS is studied for Nyquist- and quasi-Nyquist WDM systems. Results show that edge tributaries experience excess performance degradation, resulting in a transmission distance drop by about a factor of 2 for quasi-Nyquist WDM.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical filters; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; Cascaded flex-grid ROADMS filtering effects; WSS; high spectral resolution filters; quasiNyquist WDM super-channels; reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Degradation; Filtering; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical filters; Wavelength division multiplexing; Elastic optical networks; High spectral resolution filter; Nyquist-WDM; ROADM; filter cascade;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987088
