Modulation Formats for Upgrading MANs to 40 Gb/s per Channel

Author

Cartaxo, Adolfo ; Fonseca, Daniel ; Monteiro, Paulo

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomunicaoes, Lisbon

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

19

Abstract

The explosive growth of traffic demand in current 10 Gb/s optical metropolitan area networks (MANs) requires the rapid upgrade of the bit rate per channel. However, constraints of deployed 10 Gb/s MANs, such as narrowband optical filtering and residual dispersion, impair significantly the performance of most 40 Gb/s modulation formats. To overcome such limitations, several modulation formats have been proposed to upgrade MANs to 40 Gb/s per channel. In this paper, we compare the performance of such formats in upgrading scenarios of 10 to 40 Gb/s MANs considering different optical impairments, namely single- and multi-channel nonlinear fibre effects.

Keywords

metropolitan area networks; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; explosive growth; modulation formats; multichannel nonlinear fibre; narrowband optical filtering; optical metropolitan area networks; residual dispersion; single-channel nonlinear fibre; traffic demand; upgrading MAN; Bit rate; Explosives; Fiber nonlinear optics; Metropolitan area networks; Narrowband; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296020

Filename

4296020