Terabit Transmission at 42.7-Gb/s on 50-GHz Grid using Hybrid RZ-DQPSK and NRZ-DBPSK Formats over 16 x 80 km SSMF Spans and 4 Bandwidth-Managed ROADMs

We demonstrate for the first time the use of asymmetric-bandwidth interleaver based re-configurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) to transmit 42.7-Gb/s channels on a 50-GHz grid. Differential binary phase shift keyed (DBPSK) format was used on the wide passband side and differential quadrature phase shift keyed (DQPSK) format was used on the narrow passband side of the ROADM. 25 channels with an aggregate capacity of 1-Tb/s were transported over 1280-km of standard single mode fiber (SSMF) including 4 ROADMs.