Colorless flexible signal generator for elastic networks and rapid prototyping
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schroder, Jochen; Du, Liang B.; Morshed, Md. Monir; Eggleton, Benjamin J.; Lowery, Arthur J.
- Source
- 2013 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013. :1-3 Mar, 2013
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Optical transmitters
OFDM
Optical pulses
Wavelength division multiplexing
Modulation
Signal generators
Bandwidth
- Language
We experimentally demonstrate a flexible signal generator that can simultaneously generate arbitrary mixes of variable-bandwidth OFDM superchannels, and gridless WDM and OTDM channels. The device is based on reconfigurable multi-input pulse-shaping of data-modulated pulses.