Experimental demonstration of backplane architectures for programmable optical nodes

Abstract

Programmable optical nodes supporting heterogeneous traffic require optical backplanes with a high port count. We present two backplane architectures to enhance modularity, compare their scalability in terms of available cross-connections and we experimentally validate both proposals in a SDN scenario.

Cognitive methodology for optical amplifier gain adjustment in dynamic networks

“…The AN setup was assembled by the Transmission team, inside the Optical Technologies Division at CPqD Foundation, composed by Heitor Carvalho, Matheus Svolenski, Alexandre Andrade, and Matheus Magalhães under the leadership of Miquel Garrich and Juliano Oliveira. Experiments accomplished in this setup led to several publications, such as[132,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147].…”