Title :
Highly scalable and compact ROADM architecture that exploits MxN wavelength-selective switches
Author :
Masaki Niwa;Yojiro Mori;Hiroshi Hasegawa;Ken-ichi Sato
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a highly scalable and compact ROADM architecture that uses multiple MxN WSSs as subsystems. The effectiveness of our scheme is verified via a hardware-cost assessment, routing-performance simulations, and transmission experiments for the first time.
Keywords :
"Photonics","Optical switches","Decision support systems"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2015.7328975
