Title :
Performance tradeoffs of 120 Gb/s DP-QPSK in ROADM systems employing Broadcast-and-Select versus Route-and-Select architectures
Author :
Filer, Mark ; Tibuleac, Sorin
Author_Institution :
ADVA Opt. Networking, Norcross, GA, USA
Abstract :
120 Gb/s DP-QPSK transmission through ROADM systems utilizing either Broadcast-and-Select or Route-and-Select architectures is compared experimentally. Performance comparisons include passband narrowing and cumulative crosstalk effects due to non-ideal WSS filtering characteristics.
Keywords :
optical communication; optical filters; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK; ROADM systems; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; broadcast-and-select architectures; nonideal WSS filtering characteristics; performance tradeoffs; route-and-select architectures; Bandwidth; Crosstalk; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical noise; Passband; Ports (Computers); Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656660
