• DocumentCode
    160996
  • Title

    1-Tb/s PDM-32QAM superchannel transmission at 6.7-b/s/Hz over SSMF and 150-GHz-grid ROADMs

  • Author

    Renaudier, Jeremie ; Muller, Rafael Rios ; Schmalen, Laurent ; Tran, P. ; Brindel, P. ; Charlet, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs. Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report on transmission of 1Tb/s superchannel occupying 150 GHz bandwidth under constraints of legacy optical networks. Using standard 50-GHz grid WSS, we assess the impact of filtering stemming from add/drop nodes over a 1Tb/s superchannel with 6.7-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; PDM 32QAM superchannel transmission; ROADMs; SSMF; bandwidth 150 GHz; bit rate 6.7 bit/s; filtering stemming; frequency 50 GHz; legacy optical networks; spectral efficiency; Filtering; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6963854
  • Filename
    6963854