Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) with Integrated Sub-Band Optical Cross-Connect
06 March 2005
We demonstrate a monolithic high-performance reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) with integrated 24x8 wavelength selecting optical cross-connect. Eight of the 24x100GHz WDM channels may be dropped to any of 8 wavelength- independent drop ports.