Modular SDN-enabled S-BVT Adopting Widely Tunable MEMS VCSEL for Flexible/Elastic Optical Metro Networks

We propose an SDN-enabled S-BVT adopting directly-modulated tunable VCSEL with direct-detection for optical metro networks and spectrum defragmentation. We experimentally assess it over different network paths up to 185km and in presence of adjacent slices.

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