Experimental Assessment Multiband Lossless ROADM Architecture for Optical Metro Access Network
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:
Xia, Shiyi; Santana, Henrique Freire; Pavon-Marino, Pablo; Skorin-Kapov, Nina; Hu, Zhouyi; Rombouts, Marijn; Raz, Oded; Calabretta, Nicola
Abstract:
We experimentally assess an SOA-based multiband lossless multi-degree reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer(MB-ROADM) for metropolitan networks. Results show -33.8dB cross-talk, lossless and error-free transmission with average power penalties of 1.2dB and 1.8dB at 10(-9) for C-band channels at 53Gbps and for O-band at 25Gbps, respectively.