Multipass Performance of a Chip-Enhanced WSS for Nyquist-WDM Sub-Band Switching

We investigate the performance of a chip-enhanced wavelength selective switch (EWSS) in multipass add/drop experiments. The demonstrated EWSS device uses a ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer chip as a wavelength interleaver, to preprocess the incoming super channel before launch into a commer...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology 2016-04, Vol.34 (8), p.1824-1830
Main Authors: Corcoran, Bill, Chen Zhu, Schroder, Jochen, Leimeng Zhuang, Foo, Benjamin, Burla, Maurizio, Beeker, Willem P., Leinse, Arne, Roeloffzen, Chris G. H., Lowery, Arthur J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Bandwidth
Finite impulse response filters
Nyquist WDM
Optical Communications
Optical fibers
Optical filters
Optical Super-Channels
Optical switches
Optically Routed Networks
Photonic Integration
Reconfigurable Optical Add /Drop Multiplexing
Ring Resonator
Wavelength Selective Switching
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Summary:We investigate the performance of a chip-enhanced wavelength selective switch (EWSS) in multipass add/drop experiments. The demonstrated EWSS device uses a ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer chip as a wavelength interleaver, to preprocess the incoming super channel before launch into a commercial wavelength selective switch. We show that a 4% guardband, quadrature-phase-shift-keying encoded Nyquist wavelength division multiplexing super channel can successfully pass through seven EWSS nodes. We further investigate the number of reachable nodes with varied guardbands, showing that a modest increase in guardband can translate to a significant increase in the number of reachable EWSS nodes.
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2016.2518200