5-band (O, E, S, C, and L) WDM Transmission with Wavelength Adaptive Modulation Format Allocation

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Okamoto, Seiji; Horikoshi, Kengo; Hamaoka, Fukutaro; Minoguchi, Kyo; Hirano, Akira (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 1-1 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa, 239-0847 Japan)

Abstract:
We propose wavelength adaptive modulation format allocation method for extremely wide WDM system. We successfully demonstrated 5-band WDM transmission for the first time, and showed potential capacity achieved 106.77 Tbit/s within 23.5 THz or 173.83 nm using proposed method.