Experimental study on OSNR requirements for spectrum-flexible optical networks [Invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Borkowski, Robert ^a   Karinou, Fotini ^b   Angelou, Marianna ^c   Arlunno, Valeria ^a   Zibar, Darko ^a   Klonidis, Dimitrios ^c   Gonzalez, Neil Guerrero ^a   Caballero, Antonio ^a   Tomkos, Ioannis ^c   Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coherent detection; Elastic optical networking; Flexible optical networking; Optical networking; Optical transmission

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALLOCATION; ALLOCATION MECHANISM; COHERENT DETECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIBER-OPTIC SYSTEMS; MODULATION FORMATS; OPTICAL NETWORKING; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RULE OF THUMB; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL GAP; SUB-CARRIERS; SUBCARRIER; SUPERCHANNEL;

ELASTICITY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 84870550441     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.4.000B85     Document Type: Article

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