Pass-band shape monitor for minimizing impact of signal filtering in cascaded ROADMs

High speed and low cost optical pass-band shape monitor with frequency modulated CW light was proposed for cascaded ROADM networks. We experimentally confirmed that this method can achieve high accuracy even with fewer monitor points.

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