Experimental Assessment of a Programmable VCSEL-Based Photonic System Architecture over a Multi-Hop Path with 19-Core MCF for Future Agile Tb/s Metro Networks

An SDN-enabled photonic system adopting VCSEL technology is experimentally analyzed targeting dynamic 5G-supportive MAN. Direct and coherent detection modules are compared and programmability assessed over up to 6-hop 160km HL4-HL2/1 connection including 25km 19-core MCF.

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