Gridless optical networking field trial: flexible spectrum switching, defragmentation and transport of 10G/40G/100G/555G over 620-km field fiber

N Amaya; M Irfan; G Zervas; K Banias; M Garrich; I Henning; D Simeonidou; Y R Zhou; A Lord; K Smith; V J F Rancano; S Liu; P Petropoulos; D J Richardson

doi:10.1364/OE.19.00B277

Gridless optical networking field trial: flexible spectrum switching, defragmentation and transport of 10G/40G/100G/555G over 620-km field fiber

Opt Express. 2011 Dec 12;19(26):B277-82. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.00B277.

Authors

N Amaya¹, M Irfan, G Zervas, K Banias, M Garrich, I Henning, D Simeonidou, Y R Zhou, A Lord, K Smith, V J F Rancano, S Liu, P Petropoulos, D J Richardson

Affiliation

¹ School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. namaya@essex.ac.uk

PMID: 22274030
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B277

Abstract

We present results from the first gridless networking field trial with flexible spectrum switching nodes and 620 km of installed fibre links. Signals at 10G, 12.25G, 42.7G, DP-QPSK 40G, DP-QPSK 100G and 555G are generated, successfully transported and switched using flexible, custom spectrum allocation per channel. Spectrum defragmentation is demonstrated using integrated SOA-MZI wavelength converters. Results show error-free end-to-end performance (BER<1e-9) for the OOK channels and good pre-FEC BER performance with sufficient margin to FEC limit for the 40G and 100G coherent channels as well as for the 555G super-channel.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't