Citation:
Mengdi Song, Pincemin, Erwan , Josten, Arne , Bäuerle, Benedikt , Hillerkuss, David , Leuthold, Juerg , Rudnick, Roy , Marom, Dan M. , Ben-Ezra, Shalva , Ferran, Jordi F. , Thouenon, Giles , Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad , Rivas-Moscoso, José Manuel , Betoule, Christophe , Klonidis, Dimitrios , and Tomkos, Ioannis . 2016.
“Flexible Optical Cross-Connects For High Bit Rate Elastic Photonic Transport Networks”. Journal Of Optical Communications And Networking, 8, Pp. A126-A140.
https://www.osapublishing.org/jocn/abstract.cfm?uri=jocn-8-7-A126.
Abstract:
We present here the work performed in the EU-funded flexible optical cross-connect (FOX-C) project, which investigates and develops new flexible optical switching solutions with ultra-fine spectral granularity. Thanks to high spectral resolution filtering elements, the sub-channel content can be dropped from or added to a super-channel, offering high flexibility to optical transport networks through the fine adaptability of the network resources to the traffic demands. For the first time, the FOX-C solutions developed in the project are investigated here and evaluated experimentally. Their efficiency is demonstrated over two high spectral efficiency modulation schemes, namely multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) and Nyquist WDM (N-WDM) formats. Finally, in order to demonstrate the relevance of the FOX-C node concepts, a networking study comparing the economic advantages of the FOX-C optical aggregation solution versus the electronic one is performed.
