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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ishikawa, Tomohiro
• Mori, Yojiro
• Hasegawa, Hiroshi
• Subramaniam, Suresh
• Sato, Ken-Ichi
• Moriwaki, Osamu

Titel

Compact OXC architecture, design and prototype development for flexible waveband routing optical networks

Ist Teil von

• Optics express, 2017-07, Vol.25 (14), p.15838-15853

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A novel compact OXC node architecture that combines WSSs and arrays of small scale optical delivery-coupling type switches ("DCSWs") is proposed. Unlike conventional OXC nodes, the WSSs are only responsible for dynamic path bundling ("flexible waveband") while the small scale optical switches route bundled path groups. A network design algorithm that is aware of the routing scheme is also proposed, and numerical experiments elucidate that the necessary number of WSSs and amplifiers can be significantly reduced. A prototype of the proposed OXC is also developed using monolithic arrayed DCSWs. Transmission experiments on the prototype verify the proposal's technical feasibility.