DocumentCode
520120
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
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
Filename
5499682
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