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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
8.6 ROADM/WADD ARCHITECTU RE—THINKING
INSIDE THE BOX
Many WADD designs suitable for use in the ROADM framework shown in Figure
8.2 can be grouped into two classes: the parallel WADD, in which an assembly of
space switches is sandwiched between the DMUX and MUX components [Figure
8.5(a), 8.5(b), or 8.5(c)]; and the serial WADD composed of cascaded tunable
filters (Figure 8.11). However, years of active ingenuity have also produced
proposals or demonstrations of a wide variety of hybrid designs and unique
reconfigurable components. Rather than try to catalog them all here, we will
concentrate on three common designs that are commercially available.
8.6.1 ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721