Summary

Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications

2015

Session Number:14-AM2-C

Session:

Number:14-AM2-C-2

Linear and Nonlinear Impairments when Adding and Dropping Superchannels in an Elastic Optical Network

Takuya Nakagawa,  Yutaka Mori,  Koichi Maru,  Haruna Matsushita,  Masahiko Jinno,  

pp.25-28

Publication Date:2015/10/14

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.28.14-AM2-C-2

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Summary:
We investigate through simulation simultaneous linear and nonlinear impairments using a realistic reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM) model while considering optical filtering and in-band coherent crosstalk at each ROADM and the nonlinear interfering effects from neighbor superchannels with the QPSK or 16QAM modulation format.