Fully reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer based on parallel configuration using Mach-Zehnder module |
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Authors: | Qirui Huang Fengguang Luo Jia Hu Zhuo Wang Ming Xia |
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Affiliation: | School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luo Yu Road, Wuhan 430074, PR China |
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Abstract: | Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) with the ability of dynamic configuration will be one of the core equipment for the future optical transport networks. This paper proposes an effective scheme for fully ROADM with parallel modularized structure and ability of upgrading. Each module consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG), a 1 × 2 optical switch and a Y-model combiner. Optical signal with single wavelength or multiwavelength could be dropped or added at one drop port or add port by configuring the optical switch in each module. The proposed ROADM with four-stage parallel connection is designed and experimentally investigated to prove its performance and advantage in dynamic selection of the wavelengths and upgrading. It is also showed that this ROADM can also reduce the ununiformity of power at output port and drop port to improve the optical signal to noise ration (OSNR) of the whole system. |
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Keywords: | Fiber bragg grating (FBG) Optical crosstalk Optical switches Dense wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) |
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