Comparison of Single-Wavelength and Multi-Wavelength Transponders in a Physical-layer-aware Network Planning Study

02/16/2023

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by   Jasper Müller, et al.

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Based on suitable system architectures and realistic specifications, transmit OSNR penalties and spectral constraints of multi-wavelength transponders are identified and analyzed in a network study. We report up to 70 lasers at the expense of a slight increase in number of lightpaths.