Amaya N, Irfan M, Zervas G, Banias K, Garrich M, Henning I, Simeonidou D, Zhou YR, Lord A, Smith K, Rancano VJF, Liu S, Petropoulos P, Richardson DJ. Gridless optical networking field trial: flexible spectrum switching, defragmentation and transport of 10G/40G/100G/555G over 620-km field fiber.
Opt Express 2011;
19:B277-B282. [PMID:
22274030 DOI:
10.1364/oe.19.00b277]
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Abstract
We present results from the first gridless networking field trial with flexible spectrum switching nodes and 620 km of installed fibre links. Signals at 10G, 12.25G, 42.7G, DP-QPSK 40G, DP-QPSK 100G and 555G are generated, successfully transported and switched using flexible, custom spectrum allocation per channel. Spectrum defragmentation is demonstrated using integrated SOA-MZI wavelength converters. Results show error-free end-to-end performance (BER<1e-9) for the OOK channels and good pre-FEC BER performance with sufficient margin to FEC limit for the 40G and 100G coherent channels as well as for the 555G super-channel.
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