Provided are a photonic cross-connector system, a wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) system using the photonic cross-connector system, and
an optical communication network based on the WDM system. The photonic
cross-connector system includes: an optical coupler branching an input
optical signal into a plurality of paths; a wavelength selective switch
(WSS) extracting at least one wavelength signal from the input optical
signal and outputting the extracted wavelength signal to at least one
port; a WDM multi-casting apparatus simultaneously copying and
reproducing the input optical signal into different wavelengths and
changing modulation methods of the input optical signal into different
types of modulation methods; an optical transmitter and/or receiver
branching and coupling the input optical signal; and a control system
controlling the optical coupler, the WSS, the WDM multicasting apparatus,
and the optical transmitter and/or receiver.