Dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation and measurement to increase the flexibility, fidelity and bandwidth of optical networks

Author

Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Scott, Ryan P. ; Geisler, David J. ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We review spectral-slice dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation and measurement (OAWG and OAWM) for bandwidth scalable and flexible bandwidth networking. OAWG and OAWM generate and measure wideband waveforms (terahertz) in many spectral slices that are less than 100 GHz wide with electronics. Within the system bandwidth, the OAWG transmitter and OAWM receiver can accommodate waveforms in a variety of modulation formats, variable channel spacings, and without any spectral guard bands. We demonstrate continuous generation of 60-GHz bandwidth optical waveforms using 5.5-GHz electronics and measurements of waveforms with 160 GHz of bandwidth using 20-GHz electronics.

Keywords

channel spacing; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; optical transmitters; waveform generators; OAWG transmitter; OAWM receiver; bandwidth 60 GHz; flexible bandwidth networking; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 5.5 GHz; modulation formats; optical arbitrary waveform measurement; optical networks; spectral-slice dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation; variable channel spacings; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Poznan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1472-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292680

Filename

6292680