Wavelength-tunable 16 optical channel transmission experiment at 2 Gbit/s and 600 Mbit/s for broadband subscriber distribution

Abstract

We report a 16 optical-channel single-mode fibre transmission experiment based on dense-WDM and tunable-etalon channel selection. Experiments at 2 Gbit/s and 600 Mbit/s over 10 km of single-mode fibre show little crosstalk penalty when the optical channel spacing is 2 nm. The system architecture is useful for high-capacity broadband subscriber distribution.