Abstract
We describe a silica-on-silicon PLC transponder aggregator (TPA) based on splitterswitch architecture. This integrated TPA enables us to realize a colorless, directionless and contentionless multi-degree ROADM cost-effectively with a small footprint.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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