Multipass performance of a chip-enhanced WSS for Nyquist-WDM sub-band switching

Bill Corcoran; Chen Zhu; Jochen Schroeder; Leimeng Zhuang; Benjamin Foo; Maurizio Burla; Willem Beeker; Arne Leinse; Chris G H Roeloffzen; Arthur Lowery

doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2518200

Multipass performance of a chip-enhanced WSS for Nyquist-WDM sub-band switching

Bill Corcoran, Chen Zhu, Jochen Schroeder, Leimeng Zhuang, Benjamin Foo, Maurizio Burla, Willem Beeker, Arne Leinse, Chris G H Roeloffzen, Arthur Lowery

Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

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Abstract

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 EWSSnodes.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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1824 - 1830
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	34
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2016.2518200
Publication status	Published - 2016

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