Capacity Improvement Using Bandwidth-Variable Transceiver in Meshed Optical Networks with Cascaded ROADMs
Konferenz: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
18.09.2016 - 22.09.2016 in Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Tagungsband: ECOC 2016
Seiten: 3Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Zhou, Xinyu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, China & ECE Dept., McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada)
Zhuge, Qunbi (ECE Dept., McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada & Ciena Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8E9, Canada)
Qiu, Meng; Xiang, Meng; Zhang, Fangyuan; Plant, David V. (ECE Dept., McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada)
Wu, Baojian (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 611731, China)
Inhalt:
We experimentally demonstrate the capacity improvement achieved by bandwidth-variable transceivers (BVT) in fiber links with cascaded ROADMs. Compared with a fixed symbol rate transceiver with standard QAMs, the BVT increases capacity by up to 17%.