Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology

Yiran Teng; Ali Mehrpooya; Ruizhi Yang; Vaigai Yokar; Sen Shen; Ning Zhang; Shuangyi Yan; Dimitra Simeonidou

doi:10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263451

Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology

Yiran Teng, Ali Mehrpooya, Ruizhi Yang, Vaigai Yokar, Sen Shen, Ning Zhang, Shuangyi Yan^*, Dimitra Simeonidou

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Abstract

We propose a RODAM-free filterless SDM metro network. By incorporating nanosecond optical switches and a novel ILP-based topology optimisation method, this network can rapidly adapt to dynamic traffic with low packet loss and achieve acceptable blocking performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9798331595319
ISBN (Print)	9798331595326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263451
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2025
Event	The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication - The Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 28 Sept 2025 → 2 Oct 2025 https://ecoc2025.org/

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Name	European Conference on Optical Communication
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2688-2531
ISSN (Electronic)	2688-254X

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Conference	The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication
Abbreviated title	ECOC 2025
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	28/09/25 → 2/10/25
Internet address	https://ecoc2025.org/

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Optical switch
SDM Networks

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Teng, Y., Mehrpooya, A., Yang, R., Yokar, V., Shen, S., Zhang, N., Yan, S., & Simeonidou, D. (2025). Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology. In The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025) (European Conference on Optical Communication). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263451

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Teng, Y , Mehrpooya, A , Yang, R , Yokar, V , Shen, S, Zhang, N, Yan, S & Simeonidou, D 2025, Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology. in The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025). European Conference on Optical Communication, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28/09/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263451

Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology. / Teng, Yiran ; Mehrpooya, Ali ; Yang, Ruizhi et al.
The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025. (European Conference on Optical Communication).

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Fast Optical Switch Enabled Filterless SDM Networks with Adaptive Topology

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