Energy-efficient optical transport capacity scaling through spatial multiplexing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 851-853

  Winzer, Peter J ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber capacity; optical transmission; space division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY SCALING; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FIBER CAPACITY; HIGH CAPACITY; MULTIBAND; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; OPTICAL TRANSPORT; OPTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; PARALLEL TRANSPORT; SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TRANSPORTATION;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 79958170403     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2140103     Document Type: Article

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