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14 December 2011 Performance improvement of bandwidth-flexible reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers with wavelength converters
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Proceedings Volume 8309, Optical Transmission Systems, Subsystems, and Technologies IX; 83092S (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905511
Event: SPIE/OSA/IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics, 2011, Shanghai, China
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel bandwidth-flexible reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) architecture based on coherent optical-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) technology. The bandwidth-flexible ROADM architecture enables sub-wavelength, superwavelength, and multiple-rate data traffic accommodation in a highly spectrum-efficient manner, thereby providing a fractional bandwidth service. We simulate and compare the blocking performance of bandwidth-flexible ROADM with and without wavelength converters. It is found that wavelength converter could obviously improve the blocking performance of bandwidth-flexible ROADM with different frequency grid. Moreover, the conversion ratios are calculated for different load and channel spacing. Based on the analysis of conversion ratio, we could make an appropriate configuration of wavelength converters in bandwidth-flexible ROADM.
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S. You "Performance improvement of bandwidth-flexible reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers with wavelength converters", Proc. SPIE 8309, Optical Transmission Systems, Subsystems, and Technologies IX, 83092S (14 December 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905511
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KEYWORDS
Multiplexers

Channel projecting optics

Frequency division multiplexing

Optical fibers

Receivers

Switching

Dense wavelength division multiplexing

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