Abstract
We present a concept of spectrally-efficient optical networking with distance-adaptive spectral allocation by adjusting the number of modulation levels. We demonstrate it by routing 40 Gb/s optical paths using short-reach, narrow-spectrum 16APSK and long-reach QPSK.
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