System Requirements for WSS Filter Shape in Cascaded ROADM Networks
- 1 January 2010
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
Abstract
We describe the impact of passband shape and random center frequency variations on the bandwidth narrowing caused by successive filtering in concatenated wavelength-selective switches. Passband flatness is extremely important for signals at 40-Gb/s and beyond.Keywords
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