Experimental Demonstration of Wavelength-Selective Band/Direction-Switchable Multi-Band OXC Using an Inter-Band All-Optical Wavelength Converter

We propose a highly-flexible multi-band OXC which effectively utilizes enhanced network resources through multi-band WDM for the first time. We experimentally confirm the feasibility of the newly-proposed C+L-band OXC with wavelength-selective band/direction switching functions.