@article {8498,
	title = {Flexible Optical Cross-Connects for High Bit Rate Elastic Photonic Transport Networks},
	journal = {Journal of Optical Communications and Networking},
	volume = {8},
	number = {7},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {A126-A140 },
	abstract = {We present here the work performed in the EU-funded flexible optical cross-connect (FOX-C) project, which investigates and develops new flexible optical switching solutions with ultra-fine spectral granularity. Thanks to high spectral resolution filtering elements, the sub-channel content can be dropped from or added to a super-channel, offering high flexibility to optical transport networks through the fine adaptability of the network resources to the traffic demands. For the first time, the FOX-C solutions developed in the project are investigated here and evaluated experimentally. Their efficiency is demonstrated over two high spectral efficiency modulation schemes, namely multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) and Nyquist WDM (N-WDM) formats. Finally, in order to demonstrate the relevance of the FOX-C node concepts, a networking study comparing the economic advantages of the FOX-C optical aggregation solution versus the electronic one is performed.},
	url = {https://www.osapublishing.org/jocn/abstract.cfm?uri=jocn-8-7-A126},
	author = {Mengdi Song and Erwan Pincemin and Arne Josten and Benedikt B{\"a}uerle and David Hillerkuss and Juerg Leuthold and Roy Rudnick and Dan M. Marom and Shalva Ben-Ezra and Jordi F. Ferran and Giles Thouenon and Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas and Jos{\'e} Manuel Rivas-Moscoso and Christophe Betoule and Dimitrios Klonidis and Ioannis Tomkos}
}
