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Cyclic spectra for wavelength-routed optical networks

Networking and Internet Architecture 2017-04-05 v1

Abstract

We propose occupying guard-bands in closely-spaced WDM systems with redundant signal spectral components, to increase tolerance to frequency misalignment and channel shaping from multiplexing elements. By cyclically repeating the spectrum of a modulated signal, we show improved tolerance to impairments due to add/drop multiplexing with a commercial wavelength selective switch, in systems using 5-20% guard bands on a 50-GHz DWDM grid.

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@article{arxiv.1701.02828,
  title  = {Cyclic spectra for wavelength-routed optical networks},
  author = {Bill Corcoran and Zihan Geng and Valery Rozental and Arthur J. Lowery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02828},
  year   = {2017}
}

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