Title :
Spectrum-efficient optical drop-add-drop network with C-MCLS
Author :
Cai, Yueping ; Cheng, Jun
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Commun. Eng., Chongqing Univ., Chongqing, China
Abstract :
This paper studies spectrum efficiency of the proposed optical drop-add-drop network with C-MCLS. Research results show that it greatly reduces the lightpath blocking probability and largely improves the spectrum utilizations compared with traditional ROADM networks.
Keywords :
light sources; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; C-MCLS; ROADM networks; centralized multicarrier light source; lightpath blocking probability; optical drop-add-drop network; spectrum efficiency; spectrum utilization; Channel spacing; Light sources; OFDM; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Resource management;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276508
