On the Relevance of the Frequency Dependent Behavior of the Polarization Dependent Loss Introduced by WSSs

Konferenz: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
22.09.2024-26.09.2024 in Frankfurt, Germany

Tagungsband: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

Autoren:
Rossi, Nicola; Zami, Thierry; Lavigne, Bruno

Inhalt:
We examine how channels routed by Wavelength Selective Switches (WSS) are affected by higher Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) from WSS near the edges of channel spectral slots. We find non-negligible impact on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio for steep PDL increase modeled by an inverse filtering function.