Demonstration of novel spectrum-efficient elastic optical path network with per-channel variable capacity of 40 Gb/s to over 400 Gb/s

1 January 2008

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

No. 1550381X,p. 1-2
https://doi.org/10.1109/ecoc.2008.4729581

Abstract

We demonstrated, for the first time, a novel spectrum-efficient elastic optical path network for 100 Gb/s services and beyond, based on flexible rate transceivers and variable-bandwidth wavelength crossconnects.

Keywords

OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS
REPEATERS
OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS
OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING
OPTICAL BUFFERING
BANDWIDTH
OPTICAL MODULATION
OFDM
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
TRANSCEIVERS