Title :
OPN04-5: Hybrid Low Loss Architecture for Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer
Author :
Al Sayeed, Choudhury A. ; Vukovic, Alex ; Yang, Oliver W W ; Hua, Heng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
fDate :
Nov. 27 2006-Dec. 1 2006
Abstract :
Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) manufactured with different designs and technologies are soon going to be available in the market. Unfortunately, the latest available ROADM architectures are either suffering from high insertion losses or high manufacturing costs that prevent their rapid deployment in the network. In this paper, we propose a low-loss hybrid architecture for a ROADM subsystem that combines the best features of the latest available ROADM designs. A metro network testbed has been designed and simulated in order to compare the performance of different ROADM modules. The obtained results indicate that our proposed hybrid-ROADM module performs better than the latest available ROADM subsystems and would reduce the overall network operating costs.
Keywords :
multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre networks; optical losses; hybrid low-loss architecture; hybrid-ROADM module design; insertion losses; metro network testbed; network deployment; reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer; Add-drop multiplexers; Costs; Insertion loss; Manufacturing; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; Programmable control; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2006. GLOBECOM '06. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0356-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-529X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.380