Comparative BER characteristics of a novel FBG-OC based 8 × 8 bidirectional optical cross connect in a WDM network

Author

Amin, Tanvir ; Rabbi, Khondokar M. F. ; Majumder, Satya P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel structure of an 8 × 8 bidirectional optical cross connect (BOXC) which is designed using fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) and optical circulators (OCs) for bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing (BWDM) network. The impact of coherent and incoherent crosstalk in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network has been taken into account and Bit Error Rate (BER) is calculated. The BER is then compared to that of 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 BOXCs.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; error statistics; optical circulators; optical crosstalk; optical interconnections; wavelength division multiplexing; BER characteristics; BOXC; BWDM network; FBG-OC; bidirectional optical cross connect; bidirectional wavelength-division-multiplexing network; bit error rate; fiber Bragg gratings; incoherent crosstalk; optical circulator; Bidirectional optical cross connect; Bit error rate; Optical circulator; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES), 2012 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Allahabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1047-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPCES.2012.6508080

Filename

6508080