Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally penalty-free transmission of 127-Gb/s coherent PM-QPSK signals through 10 cascaded 50-GHz commercial WSS over 1500-km SMF. Simulation results show that more than 40 cascades of such 50-GHz liquid-crystal based WSS is feasible.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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