Enabling Technologies for Scalable ROADMs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Roorda, Peter; Smith, Brian; Colbourne, Paul; McLaughlin, Sheldon; Matthews, Martin
- Source
- 2024 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2024. :1-3 Mar, 2024
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical switches
Optical add-drop multiplexers
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber devices
- Language
Continued ROADM capacity scaling will require WSS devices in quad and octal configurations, with higher port counts, that operate across wider bands (C and L). Introduction of hybrid fiber/wavelength switching architectures for multi-rail will follow.