Field trial evaluation and SDN configurability of an optical terabit transmitter based on passive polymer and InP technology

A tunable, bandwidth variable, SP-IQ (Single Polarization In Phase and Quadrature) transmitter based on the hybrid integration of passive polymer PolyBoards with InP photonic chips and InP-DHBT electronic chips having the potential for operation at rates up to 64 Gbaud is presented. Device transmission performance were evaluated in a field trial in TIM metro regional network, in a complex testing environment where TIM SDN controller performed transmitter configuration through a properly developed SDO (Software Defined Optics) agent and instantiated optical connections through WDM metro network.