Title :
Reconfigurable 2-D WDM optical tapped-delay-line to correlate 20Gbaud QPSK data
Author :
Chitgarha, M.R. ; Ziyadi, M. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Almaiman, A. ; Touch, J.D. ; Tur, Moshe ; Langrock, C. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 2-D optical tapped-delay-line that exploits nonlinearities and chromatic dispersion to perform 2-D correlation on 20Gbaud QPSK data with correlator results with an average EVM of ~7.8%. We successfully recognize different 2×2 target patterns in an image with 961 pixels.
Keywords :
optical correlation; optical delay lines; optical images; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 2D correlation; QPSK data; chromatic dispersion; optical tapped delay line; reconfigurable 2D WDM;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1342
