Multi-Terabit Test Solution

Modular Multi-Terabit Solution for Testing your Elastic Optical Network Designs

At a Glance

  • Multi-Terabit testing capability for multi-format, flexi-grid and flexi-rate optical transport systems up to 54 Tb/s
  • Highly scalable modular design adaptable for customer specific requirements
  • Up to 272 Gb/s per carrier (in case of 16-QAM)
  • Up to 200 DWDM carriers
  • Narrow line width lasers in a 19” high density laser rack
  • Up to 16 synchnronized electrical data streams
  • 16 MBit waveform memory
  • Easy to use GUI-based control
  • Turn-key custom systems

Solution Building Blocks

  • CoBriteMX Highly scalable multi carrier laser platform
  • PMUX Polarization maintaining multiplexer
  • Optical multi-format transmitter with software-based predistortion
  • 34 GSa/s Arbitrary waveform generator
  • Graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Digital signal processing (DSP) library

Key Specifications

CoBriteMX

  • Spectral line width: 100 kHz
  • Carrier frequencies: C-band / L-band 191.2 - 196.25 THz / 186.3 - 191.15 THz
  • Output power: up to +16 dBm  
  • Frequency accuracy: -1.5 to +1.5 GHz
  • Side mode suppression ratio: up to 55 dB

Further Information
 

PMUX

  • Insertion loss: < 6 dB
  • Uniformity across band: < 1.5 dB
  • 3dB bandwidth in channel: 0.6 nm
  • Channel configuration: customer specified
  • Polarization extinction ratio: 20 dB typical

Further Information
 

Optical Multi-Format Transmitter

  • Number of RF input channels: up to 4
  • Modulation formats: OOK, DPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, etc.
  • Bitrate: up to 272 Gb/s (in case of 16-QAM)
  • Software: digital signal processing library

Further Information

34 GSa/s Arbitrary Waveform Generator

  • Sampling rate: up to 34 GSa/s
  • Number of synch. channels: up to 16
  • Memory: 16 Mbit per channel
  • Bandwidth / Resolution: typ. 18 GHz / 6 bit

Further Information