2010 · 10 citations · 2 references
EngineeringCommunicationElectrical EngineeringDigital CommunicationOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber-optic CommunicationLiquid CrystalsMillimeter-wave CommunicationsOptical Communication SystemsOptical Fiber PropagationOptical ModulationCoherent Optical CommunicationHigh-speed Optical ModulationHigh-speed TransmissionOptical Transmission Systems
We experimentally demonstrate penalty-free transmission of 127-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK through a cascade of ten commercial 50-GHz WSS over 1500-km NDSF. Simulation results show that cascades of 40 such 50-GHz liquid-crystal based ROADMs is feasible.
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