On the Relevance of the Frequency Dependent Behavior of the Polarization Dependent Loss Introduced by WSSs
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Rossi, Nicola; Zami, Thierry; Lavigne, Bruno
Abstract:
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.