Simulador de Código Livre Aplicado em Redes Ópticas com Multiplexação por Divisão Espacial

The increased demand for traffic on the networks has driven the development of technologies capable of serving them efficiently. Based on this premise, elastic optical networks (EON) brought flexibility in the establishment of calls compared to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. In recent years, space division multiplexing (SDM) technology has been gaining space in the literature in order to explore the spatial dimensions in optical fibers. In this context, this paper proposes an extension of an open source simulator, used in WDM optical networks and EONs, for the scenario of SDM/WDM and SDM/EON. For this, it considers the impact of physical penalties along the propagation of optical signals (losses and gains in devices, amplified spontaneous emission noise and intercore crosstalk). Validations in different scenarios, using simulators available in the literature and computational tools, were performed in order to demonstrate the robustness of the new simulator.