Title : 
1500-km transmission of 100-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK with 10 cascaded 50-GHz wavelength selective switches
         
        
            Author : 
Zhang, B. ; Malouin, C. ; Liao, G. ; Liu, S. ; Wang, P. ; Washburn, H. ; Yuan, J. ; Schmidt, T.J.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Opnext, Inc., Los Gatos, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrate experimentally penalty-free transmission of 127-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK signals through 10 cascaded 50-GHz commercial WSS over 1500-km SMF. Simulation results show that more than 40 cascades of such 50-GHz liquid-crystal based WSS is feasible.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light coherence; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; coherent PM-QPSK; frequency 50 GHz; wavelength selective switches; Bandwidth; Filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Quadrature phase shift keying; Shape;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-890-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-890-2