Experimental Demonstration of a Flexible Filterless and Bidirectional SDM Optical Metro/Inter-DC Network

© VDE VERLAG GMBH. Berlin. Offenbach. We experimentally evaluate a filterless, all-optical network using architecture-on-demand nodes and MCF-based links for metro and inter-data centre communication. We demonstrate that bidirectional SDM networking with elastic super-channels can eliminate drop-and-waste while supporting hitless dynamic bandwidth allocation.

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