Metropolitan optical networks: A survey on single-layer architectures

LS de Sousa, AC Drummond - Optical Switching and Networking, 2023 - Elsevier
Metropolitan optical networks are undergoing significant transformations to continue being
able to provide services that meet the requirements of the applications of the future. The …

[HTML][HTML] Low-loss and polarization insensitive 32× 4 optical switch for ROADM applications

X Zhu, X Wang, Y Huang, L Wu, C Zhao… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated switches play a crucial role in the development of reconfigurable optical add-drop
multiplexers (ROADMs) that have greater flexibility and compactness, ultimately leading to …

Implementation of an elastic reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer based on subcarriers for application in optical multichannel networks

F Khosravi, M Tarhani, S Kurle… - 2022 International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We designed a Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) based on a sub
carrier add/drop node in an optical communication system that is suitable for all kinds of …

Asymmetric CDC ROADMs for efficient support of bi-directionally asymmetric traffic demands

L Lu, Y Li, L Zong, B Mukherjee… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
With the arrival of 5G era, Internet traffic is growing explosively. Meanwhile, the asymmetry of
traffic in upstream and downstream directions is becoming more severe. Most current …