Impact of WSS filtering penalty on the capacity of elastic WDM ring optical networks

Yang, H and Wright, P and Robertson, B and Wilkinson, P and Dolan, PR and Lord, A and Chu, D (2018) Impact of WSS filtering penalty on the capacity of elastic WDM ring optical networks. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Abstract

© OSA 2018. Our network model shows that the 3dB width of the Gaussian spectrum intensity profile in WSSs needs to be < 6GHz for realising the ~30% capacity increase in a WDM ring network as promised by the flexible-spectrum standard.