Optical channel capacity: 100 Gb/s, Tb/s and beyond

Tiejun J. Xia; Glenn Wellbrock

doi:10.1117/12.914244

25 January 2012 Optical channel capacity: 100 Gb/s, Tb/s and beyond

Tiejun J. Xia, Glenn Wellbrock

Proceedings Volume 8331, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking; 833105 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914244
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings 2011, 2011, Wuhan, China

Abstract

100-Gb/s per channel optical transport technology development has experienced a long journey from purely academic interests to commercially viable solutions. In near future, 100-Gb/s channel will be one of the major building blocks for the next generation transport network. Beyond 100 Gb/s optical channel designs may, however, experience a paradigm change. So far, almost all commercially available optical channels, with capacity up to 100 Gb/s, are single-optical-carrier ETDM (electrical time domain multiplexing) channels. Optical channels with capacities beyond 100 Gb/s, however, will most likely be a superchannel with multiple optical carriers based on our analysis.

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Tiejun J. Xia and Glenn Wellbrock "Optical channel capacity: 100 Gb/s, Tb/s and beyond", Proc. SPIE 8331, Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM) 2011: Optical Communication Systems and Networking, 833105 (25 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.914244

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