Title :
Experimental demonstration of overshoot suppression for cascaded WSS-based ROADMs
Author :
Januario, Joao ; Garrich, Miquel ; Sarti, Benjamin ; Gonzalez, Neil ; Oliveira, Juliano
Author_Institution :
CPqD Found., Campinas, Brazil
Abstract :
Cascaded WSS-based ROADMs using conventional controllers may amplify optical power fluctuations leading to undesired overshoots. We propose and experimentally demonstrate an optical channel power controller and a technique to suppress overshoots.
Keywords :
multiplexing equipment; optical fibre networks; optical switches; power control; telecommunication control; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; cascaded WSS-based ROADM; elastic optical networking; optical backbone networks; optical channel power controller; optical metro networks; optical power fluctuation amplification; overshoot suppression; reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers; traffic demands; wavelength selective switches; Decision support systems; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Transient analysis; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
