Abstract
We report a two-span, 67-km space-division-multiplexed (SDM) wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) system incorporating the first reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) supporting spatial superchannels and the first cladding-pumped multicore erbium-doped fiber amplifier directly spliced to multicore transmission fiber. The ROADM subsystem utilizes two conventional 1 × 20 wavelength selective switches (WSS) each configured to implement a 7 × (1 × 2) WSS. ROADM performance tests indicate that the subchannel insertion losses, attenuation accuracies, and passband widths are well matched to each other and show no significant penalty, compared to the conventional operating mode for the WSS. For 6 × 40 × 128-Gb/s SDM-WDM polarization-multiplexed quadrature phase-shift-keyed (PM-QPSK) transmission on 50 GHz spacing, optical signal-to-noise ratio penalties are less than 1.6 dB in Add, Drop, and Express paths. In addition, we demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing joint signal processing of subchannels in this two-span, ROADM system.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6623116 |
| Pages (from-to) | 783-789 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 15 Feb 2014 |
Keywords
- Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
- optical fiber communication
- optical fiber networks
- wavelength routing
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics