Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications

BJ Puttnam, G Rademacher, RS Luís - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Research on space-division multiplexing (SDM) came to prominence in early 2010 being
primarily proposed as a means of multiplying the information-carrying capacity of optical …

Survival multipath energy-aware resource allocation in SDM-EONs during fluctuating traffic

R Zhu, A Samuel, P Wang, S Li, L Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy consumption efficiency during resource allocation is crucial for large scale networks.
The evolution of space division multiplexing elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) has …

Spatial channel cross-connect architectures for spatial channel networks

M Jinno - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A spatial channel network (SCN) is a novel optical network architecture targeting the space
division multiplexing (SDM) era where the optical layer is explicitly evolved into the …

TAPI-enabled SDN control for partially disaggregated multi-domain (OLS) and multi-layer (WDM over SDM) optical networks

C Manso, R Muñoz, N Yoshikane… - Journal of Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Network operators are facing a critical issue on their optical transport networks to deploy
5G+ and Internet of Things services. They need to address the capacity increase by a factor …

Core selective switch with low insertion loss over ultra-wide wavelength range for spatial channel networks

M Jinno, I Urashima, T Ishikawa, T Kodama… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The core selective switch (CSS) is an optical spatial switch that has been recently proposed
as a key building block to achieve a scalable and low-insertion-loss spatial cross-connects …

Principle, design, and prototyping of core selective switch using free-space optics for spatial channel network

M Jinno, T Kodama, T Ishikawa - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the principle, design, and prototyping of a free-space-optics-based core
selective switch (CSS) for spatial channel (SCh) networks (SCNs) in the age of space …

Technoeconomic analysis of spatial channel networks (SCNs): Benefits from spatial bypass and spectral grooming

M Jinno, Y Asano, Y Azuma, T Kodama… - Journal of Optical …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Toward the forthcoming spatial division multiplexing (SDM) era, a spatial channel network
(SCN) was recently proposed in which the optical layer is explicitly decoupled from the …

Feasibility demonstration of spatial channel networking using SDM/WDM hierarchical approach for peta-b/s optical transport

M Jinno, T Kodama, T Ishikawa - Journal of Lightwave technology, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This article reports on a proof of concept demonstration of a recently proposed spatial
channel network (SCN) that was conducted over an SCN testbed that comprises low-loss …

Evaluation of optical transport unit line-card integration in spatially and spectrally flexible optical networks in terms of device cost and network performance

W Zheng, M Yang, C Zhang, Y Zheng… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive growth of internet traffic has accelerated the evolution of optical transport
networks, emphasizing the need to expand transmission capacity. To overcome the …

A vision of 6th generation of fixed networks (f6g): Challenges and proposed directions

D Uzunidis, K Moschopoulos, C Papapavlou… - Telecom, 2023 - mdpi.com
Humankind has entered a new era wherein a main characteristic is the convergence of
various technologies providing services and exerting a major impact upon all aspects of …