System performance measurements for an all-optical header processor using 100-Gb/s packets

Author

Ahn, K.H. ; Lou, J.W. ; Liang, Y. ; Boyraz, O. ; Xia, T.J. ; Kao, Y.-H. ; Islam, M.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

1999

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

142

Abstract

We experimentally measure the eye diagram of an all-optical header processor using a crosscorrelator to achieve picosecond resolution. By varying 100-Gb/s header packets, we measure an eye diagram with a Q-value of 7.1 at 12-pJ packet pulse energy for the all-optical header processor consisting of all-optical logic gates and synchronized fiber lasers. From the Q-value, we also statistically calculate the potential bit-error-rate performance of 7.0/spl times/10/sup -13/. By measuring the change in Q-values as a function of input power, we find that input power fluctuations degrade the performance of the header processor by reducing the switching contrast of the logic gates in the header processor.

Keywords

fluctuations; optical correlation; optical fibre communication; optical logic; packet switching; statistical analysis; 100 Gbit/s; 12 pJ; Gb/s header packets; Gb/s packets; Q-value; Q-values; all-optical header processor; all-optical logic gates; bit-error-rate performance; crosscorrelator; eye diagram; input power; input power fluctuations; logic gates; packet pulse energy; picosecond resolution; statistically calculate; switching contrast; synchronized fiber lasers; system performance measurements; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Fiber lasers; Fluctuations; Logic gates; Optical pulses; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; Signal analysis; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.736422

Filename

736422