Interferometric noise penalty in 10-Gb/s Ethernet LAN links

Author

Sefler, George A. ; Pepeljugoski, Petar K.

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. & Dev. Center, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

2002

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

115

Abstract

The penalty due to interferometric noise in 10-Gb/s Ethernet, single-mode fiber, local area network links is evaluated as a function of receiver and transmitter return losses and other link parameters. Robust link operation was experimentally observed and theoretically confirmed with 12-dB return losses for both the receiver and transmitter and modulation extinction ratios greater than 3 dB, consistent with a low-cost objective.

Keywords

light interferometry; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre losses; optical noise; optical receivers; optical transmitters; 10 Gbit/s; 12 dB; Ethernet LAN links; Ethernet single-mode fiber local area network links; interferometric noise; interferometric noise penalty; link parameters; modulation extinction ratios; optical communication; receiver return losses; robust link operation; transmitter return losses; Ethernet networks; Intelligent networks; Laser noise; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber communication; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.974179

Filename

974179