Direction-Independent Add/Drop Access for Multi-Degree ROADMs

Sashisekaran Thiagarajan; Loudon Blair; Joseph Berthold

Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper OThA7

Direction-Independent Add/Drop Access for Multi-Degree ROADMs

Sashisekaran Thiagarajan, Loudon Blair, and Joseph Berthold

Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2008

San Diego, California United States
24–28 February 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55752-859-9

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Optical Switching II (OThA)

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S. Thiagarajan, L. Blair, and J. Berthold, "Direction-Independent Add/Drop Access for Multi-Degree ROADMs," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008), paper OThA7.

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Abstract

We analyze system costs and associated tradeoffs for implementing direction-independent add/drop access for multi-degree ROADMs employing 1×K Wavelength Selective Switches (WSS) and 3D-MEMS-based mirror array switches.

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