Title :
Experimental demonstration of optical multicast using WSS based multi-degree ROADM
Author :
Hwan Seok Chung ; Sun Hyok Chang ; Sang Soo Lee ; Kwangjoon Kim
Author_Institution :
BcN Res. Div., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejon, South Korea
Abstract :
The feasibility of multicast capable ROADM supporting optical multicast of any wavelength in any fiber is experimentally demonstrated. We implement fully-reconfigurable MC-ROADM, and evaluate multicasting performances by fully loading 40 x 10 Gb/s WDM signals.
Keywords :
multicast communication; multiplexing equipment; optical fibre communication; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM signals; optical couplers; optical multicast; reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer; wavelength selective switches; Couplers; Degradation; Optical fiber communication; Optical noise; Optical switches; Performance evaluation; Signal to noise ratio; Telecommunication traffic; Unicast; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528122
