Reconfigurable waveband cross-connect and its application in 112 Gb/s WDM system

We demonstrated a reconfigurable waveband cross-connect that can dynamically configure uniform and non-uniform waveband assignments to improve aggregation efficiency. We applied it on 112 Gb/s polarization-multiplexed RZ-QPSK WDM system and obtained good system performance.

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