Title :
Impact of reducing channel spacing from 50GHz to 37.5GHz in fully transparent meshed networks
Author :
Morea, Annalisa ; Renaudier, Jeremie ; Ghazisaeidi, Amirhossein ; Bertran-Pardo, Oriol ; Zami, Thierry
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs., Nozay, France
Abstract :
Accounting for tight filtering impairments, we show why the ideal extra capacity of 33% brought by 37.5GHz channel spacing (compared to 50GHz) may be significantly reduced under physical constraints of fully transparent meshed networks.
Keywords :
channel capacity; channel spacing; filtering theory; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network planning; wavelength division multiplexing; channel spacing reduction; frequency 50 GHz to 37.5 GHz; fully transparent dense WDM network planning; fully transparent meshed networks; optical filtering impairments; physical constraints; Filtering; Optical filters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th1E.4
