Title :
Distributed 1-Tb/s all-optical aggregation capacity in 125-GHz optical bandwidth by frequency conversion in fiber
Author :
Thomas Richter;Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst;Robert Elschner;Lutz Molle;Saleem Alreesh;Tomoyuki Kato;Takahito Tanimura;Shigeki Watanabe;Johannes Karl Fischer;Colja Schubert
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We demonstrate the spatially distributed aggregation of four 31.1-GBd PDM-32QAM sub-carriers into a 1-Tb/s net data rate superchannel occupying only 125-GHz optical bandwidth, and its subsequent transmission over 160-km SSMF with broadband reception in a single coherent receiver.
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Frequency conversion","Optical receivers","Bit error rate","Optical polarization","Adaptive optics"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341684
