A Survey of Reconfigurable Optical Networks

• Published in: Optical switching and networking Vol. 41; p. 100621
• Main Authors: Nance Hall, Matthew, Foerster, Klaus-Tycho, Schmid, Stefan, Durairajan, Ramakrishnan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2021
• Subjects: Algorithms; Data center networks; Networked Systems; Reconfigurable optical networks; Wide area networks; Wide area networks; Reconfigurable optical networks; Algorithms; Networked Systems; Data center networks
• ISSN: 1573-4277; 1872-9770
• DOI: 10.1016/j.osn.2021.100621

Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of the field. We first review enabling optical hardware technologies in general and then consider technologies that are s...