39th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2013)
DOI: 10.1049/cp.2013.1611
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We investigate the use of a fast switching DSDBR tunable laser in a coherent receiver to enable microsecond sweeping time over the C-band. Thomson's Multitaper method is used to estimate spectral slices which are then digitally stitched to form the complete scanned spectrum.