System design and performance of reconfigurable and simultaneous 2D multiple-plane WDM optical interconnects

Author

Leight, J.E. ; Yoo, Jerald ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

33

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

3/27/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

613

Lastpage

614

Abstract

A system design for reconfigurable and simultaneous 2D multiple plane WDM optical interconnects has been investigated. Device characteristics such as detector responsivity shape, efficiency, and complexity affect the design requirements for wavelength separation and channel power. With decreasing wavelength separation, increased optical crosstalk and signal power loss result in performance penalties most notably for the middle wavelength channels. When signal power loss and optical crosstalk from the detection of undesired channels are evaluated, it is found that wavelength channel spacing down to 10 nm can be tolerated for the specific detector responsivity shape and efficiency attainable from currently available devices

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical information processing; optical interconnections; photodetectors; wavelength division multiplexing; channel power; detector responsivity shape; efficiency; multiple-plane WDM optical interconnects; optical crosstalk; signal power loss; wavelength separation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19970374

Filename

591396