Title :
8 × 8 wavelength cross connect with add/drop ports integrated in spatial and planar optical circuit
Author :
Naru Nemoto;Yuichiro Ikuma;Kenya Suzuki;Osamu Moriwaki;Toshio Watanabe;Mikitaka Itoh;Tetsuo Takahashi
Author_Institution :
NTT Device Innovation Center, NTT Corporation. 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a compact 8 × 8 broadcast-and-select wavelength cross connect with add/drop ports for 8-degree node. A combination of waveguide-based frontend and free-space optics allows us to integrate eight arrays of 1 × 8 WSSs and 1 × 8 splitters into a small footprint.
Keywords :
"Liquid crystal on silicon","Ports (Computers)","Diffraction","Optical waveguides","Optical switches"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341950
