Title :
Coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing for optical slot switched intra-datacenters networks
Author :
José Estarán;Miquel A. Mestre;Philippe Jennevé;Haik Mardoyan;Idelfonso Tafur Monroy;Darko Zibar;Sébastien Bigo
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France
Abstract :
We propose low-overhead CO-OFDM-based flexible transponders for OSS intra-datacenter networks. Experimental validation is performed for up to 100 cascaded nodes, showing 50Gbps higher average rate, 40% extended reach, and >4GHz extra detuning tolerance than the Nyquist counterpart.
Keywords :
"OFDM","Optical filters","Transponders","Optical switches","Optical polarization","Loading","Optical fiber networks"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341908
