Colorless, Directionless, and Partially Contentionless (CDpC) ROADM: A New Architecture for the Best Performance to Cost Ratio (Invited)

We design a new colorless, directionless, and partially contentionless (CDpC) ROADM architecture to reduce the cost of fully contentionless modules in CDC ROADMs. Simulation studies show the blocking performance efficiency of the CDpC architecture while significantly reducing the system cost.