BER Performance Limitations of A FBG-Based Bi-Directional Optical Cross-Connect Due to the Grating Length and Induced Index Change of a FBG.

Author

Dey, Sanjoy

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson

fYear

2007

fDate

20-22 April 2007

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

In this paper we present the impact of some physical parameters like grating length and induced index change of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) on the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a bi-directional FBG based optical cross-connect (OXC) for different optical powers. This paper reveals that there is a power penalty suffered by the system due to this type of OXC. The limiting values of grating length and induced index change of a FBG for this type of system at a BER of 10^-9 are determined. It is also shown that BER increases in this system as the FBG grating length and induced index change decreases.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; error statistics; optical fibres; optical interconnections; BER; FBG-based bi-directional optical cross-connect; bit-error-rate; fiber Bragg grating; grating length; induced index change; optical powers; power penalty; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bidirectional control; Bit error rate; Bragg gratings; Computer science; Fiber gratings; Optical arrays; Optical crosstalk; Optical waveguides; Wavelength division multiplexing; Bit-error-rate (BER); fiber Bragg grating (FBG); incoherent crosstalk; optical cross-connect (OXC); power penalty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Region 5 Technical Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Fayetteville, AR

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1280-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1280-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TPSD.2007.4380377

Filename

4380377