Performance analysis of optical wavelength switching network using multiple output light source

In this paper a 32×32 optical wavelength switching network using the multi-channel and multi-wavelength spectrum-sliced light source is presented where the 2×2 optical-switching elements are utilized in dilated Benes and modified dilated Benes configurations, respectively. The system performances in bit-error rate, especially for the effects of intraband crosstalk, are analyzed in details for the two type networks. Through the simulation studies, the dilated Benes shows better performances than the modified dilated Benes configuration.