A very high capacity optical fibre network for large- scale antenna constellations: the RETINA project

A combination of flexible optical time division multiplexing and dense wavelength division multiplexing techniques is deployed for realising a reconfigurable multi-Tbit/s data transport network connecting over 13000 telescope antennas. Both short-range and long-range transport in the 1.3 µm and in the 1.5 µm wavelength range, respectively, are explored.

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