Investigation of the impact of ultra-narrow carrier spacing on the transmission of a 10-carrier 1Tb/s superchannel

Author

Gavioli, G. ; Torrengo, E. ; Bosco, G. ; Carena, A. ; Curri, V. ; Miot, V. ; Poggiolini, P. ; Belmonte, M. ; Forghieri, F. ; Muzio, C. ; Piciaccia, S. ; Brinciotti, A. ; La Porta, Antonio ; Lezzi, C. ; Savory, S. ; Abrate, S.

Author_Institution

OptCom, Dipt. di Elettron., Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We investigate the impact of ultra-narrow carrier spacing on the transmission of a 1Tb/s superchannel comprising 10 Ã— 100 Gb/s PM-QPSK carriers. We demonstrate 2200 km over installed SMF fibre with a carrier spacing of 1.1 the Baud rate.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; optical fibre communication; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; PM-QPSK; WDM; bit rate 1 Tbit/s; coherent optical OFDM; distance 2200 km; standard-single mode fiber; superchannel; ultra-narrow carrier spacing; Fiber nonlinear optics; OFDM modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465400