Title :
Field trial of a real-time, single wavelength, coherent 100 Gbit/s PM-QPSK channel upgrade of an installed 1800km link
Author :
Birk, M. ; Gerard, P. ; Curto, R. ; Nelson, L. ; Zhou, X. ; Magill, P. ; Schmidt, T.J. ; Malouin, C. ; Zhang, B. ; Ibragimov, E. ; Khatana, S. ; Glavanovic, M. ; Lofland, R. ; Marcoccia, R. ; Nicholl, G. ; Nowell, M. ; Forghieri, F.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs., Opt. Syst. Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a real-time, single-wavelength, coherent 100 G PM-QPSK upgrade of a field system. Performance sufficient for error-free operation after forward-error-correction was achieved over installed 900 km and 1800 km links, proving the viability of seamless 100 Gb/s upgrades.
Keywords :
forward error correction; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM transport systems; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; coherent PM-QPSK channel; distance 1800 km; distance 900 km; forward-error-correction; single-wavelength PM-QPSK; Error-free operation; Real time systems;
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
