European Conference on Optical Communication

Spatially distributed aggregation of a polarization-division multiplexed superchannel by frequency conversion in fiber

Thomas Richter, Robert Elschner, Carsten Schmidt‐Langhorst, Tomoyuki Kato, Takahito Tanimura, Shigeki Watanabe, Colja Schubert

Published Sep 1, 2015• 3 citations

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Abstract

We extend our concept for distributed ultra-dense frequency-division multiplex of single-polarization subcarriers to multiplex of polarization-division multiplexed (PDM) subcarriers. Precise frequency allocation of PDM subcarriers within a 400-Gb/s superchannel is experimentally validated with Nyquist-shaped PDM-QPSK subcarriers.

DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2015.7341856

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