Impact of Reducing Channel Spacing from 50GHz to 37.5GHz in Fully Transparent Meshed Networks

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2014.th1e.4
• Publication Date: 2014-03-25T03:33:15Z
• Authors: A. Morea; J. Renaudier; A. Ghazisaeidi; O. Bertran-Pardo; T. Zami
• Keywords: Channel spacing

Accounting for tight filtering impairments, we show why the ideal extra capacity of 33% brought by 37.5GHz channel spacing (compared to 50GHz) may be significantly reduced under physical constraints fully transparent meshed networks.