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 pp. 1-3..

Abstract

© 2018 OSA. 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.