Effect of Link Margins and Frequency Granularity on the Performance and Modulation Format Sweet Spot of Multiple Flexgrid Optical Networks

Abhijit Mitra; Abhijit Mitra; Andrew Lord; Subrat Kar; Paul Wright

doi:10.1364/OFC.2014.W3A.6

Optical Fiber Communication Conference
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014),
paper W3A.6
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2014.W3A.6

Effect of Link Margins and Frequency Granularity on the Performance and Modulation Format Sweet Spot of Multiple Flexgrid Optical Networks

Abhijit Mitra, Andrew Lord, Subrat Kar, and Paul Wright

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2014

San Francisco, California United States
9–13 March 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55752-993-0

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A. Mitra, A. Lord, S. Kar, and P. Wright, "Effect of Link Margins and Frequency Granularity on the Performance and Modulation Format Sweet Spot of Multiple Flexgrid Optical Networks," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014), paper W3A.6.

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Abstract

We consider range of modulation formats for small, medium and large networks as a function of line margin and frequency granularity. Capacity increases by 80%, 65% and 46.5% with 12.5GHz granularity at the OSNR limit.

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