A wavelength selective switch and related device

Abstract

The embodiment of the present application discloses a wavelength selective switch, including: the input fiber collimation array includes a plurality of input ports; the relay lens is located between the first switching engine and the second switching engine; the first lens group includes A lenses, The second lens group includes B lenses, A and B are natural numbers greater than or equal to 2, the first lens group is connected to the first switching engine and the relay lens, the second lens group is connected to the relay lens and the second switching engine, and the first Both the lens group and the second lens group include lenses with curvature in the dispersion direction; the output fiber collimating array includes multiple output ports. By setting two or more lens groups between the switching engines. The filtering cost of the wavelength selective switch is reduced, and the filtering bandwidth of the wavelength selective switch is improved.

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technical field [0001] The present application relates to the technical field of optical communication, in particular to a wavelength selective switch and related devices. Background technique [0002] With the rapid growth of video and cloud services, operators are particularly concerned about the flexibility of optical network construction and the reduction of optical network construction and operation and maintenance costs. There are more and more directional dimensions (or transmission paths) that network nodes need to cross-connect, and operators can remotely and automatically switch dimensions by using a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) etc., to replace the previous way of manually going down to the site to replace the optical fiber connection, so as to meet the needs of network dynamic connection. In order to meet the high-efficiency and flexibility requirements of high-speed optical communication networks, ROADM, which is the core of network cross...

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However, the filtering effect of the switching engine causes the optical signal to degrade the signal quality every time it passes through a switching engine. The filtering effect is particularly obvious in the case of cascading multiple switching engines, which will seriously reduce the channel quality.

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