Title :
Variable passband optical add-drop multiplexer using wavelength selective switch
Author :
Rhee, J.-K. ; Garcia, F. ; Ellis, A. ; Hallock, B. ; Kennedy, T. ; Lackey, T. ; Lindquist, R.G. ; Kondis, J.P. ; Scott, B.A. ; Harris, J.M. ; Wolf, D. ; Dugan, M.
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We propose a novel application of a liquid-crystal based wavelength selective switch that offers user configurable, variable passband optical add-drop multiplex for 10 and 40 Gbps DWDM network systems.
Keywords :
liquid crystal devices; multiplexing equipment; optical fibre networks; photonic switching systems; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM network; configurable optical add-drop multiplex; liquid-crystal based wavelength selective switch; variable passband optical add-drop multiplexer; wavelength selective switch; Bandwidth; Insertion loss; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Passband; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989104
