High Capacity Innovations Enabling Scalable Optical Transmission Networks

Abstract

We review the key optical innovations that enable scalable, efficient high capacity optical transmission networks and present results from recent industry leading technology trials in field deployed network and successful demonstration of emerging 400ZR/ZR+ technologies

Flexible All-Optical 8QAM Signal Format Conversion Using Pump Assisted Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

“…Generally, data transmission between different optical network variants will be via optical nodes, connecting for instance, backbone optical networks (BONs) to metro access networks (MANs) or local access networks (LANs). These optical networks usually differ in their data traffic types, network dimensions, access terminals and so on, with corresponding optimal modulation formats for each [7], [8]. Advanced modulation formats including m-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (mQAM) and m-ary phase shift keying (mPSK) have higher spectrum efficiency (SE) and better chromatic dispersion (CD) tolerance.…”