Bandwidth-Scalable Long-Haul Transmission Using Synchronized Colorless Transceivers and Efficient Wavelength-Selective Switches

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2646-2660

  Barros, Daniel J F ^a   Kahn, Joseph M ^a   Wilde, Jeffrey P ^a   Zeid, Tarek Abou ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent detection; communication system performance; flexible bandwidth; long haul systems; multicarrier optical systems; optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); ROADM; superchannels; terabit channels; variable bandwidth channels; variable rate; wavelength selective switch (WSS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008530420     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2203585     Document Type: Article

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