Abstract
We report for the first time, the impact of cross phase modulation in WDM optical transport networks employing dynamic 28 Gbaud PM-mQAM transponders (m = 4, 16, 64, 256). We demonstrate that if the order of QAM is adjusted to maximize the capacity of a given route, there may be a significant degradation in the transmission performance of existing traffic for a given dynamic network architecture. We further report that such degradations are correlated to the accumulated peak-to-average power ratio of the added traffic along a given path, and that managing this ratio through pre-distortion reduces the impact of adjusting the constellation size of neighboring channels. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 9044-9049 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Optics Express |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 9 May 2011 |
Bibliographical note
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