Confidence limits for network performance in the presence of homodyne optical crosstalk

Author

Durrani, K. ; Holmes, M.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., King´s Coll., London, UK

fYear

2000

fDate

24-28 July 2000

Abstract

We have described novel probabilistic methods to analyze the accumulation of impairments in wavelength-routed networks. We have used the model to calculate confidence limits for acceptable bit error rate performance in the presence of crosstalk from routing elements such as optical switches. Our calculation takes into account all possible network configurations and laser wavelength misalignment due to drift and referencing error.

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical fiber networks; probability; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; acceptable bit error rate performance; accumulation of impairments; confidence limits; discrete PDF; drift error; homodyne optical crosstalk; laser wavelength misalignment; network performance; probabilistic methods; referencing error; routing algorithm; routing elements; semi-analytic method; signal flow; traffic data; wavelength-routed networks; Bit error rate; Intelligent networks; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical crosstalk; Power lasers; Probability; Switches; Wavelength assignment; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic-Enhanced Optics, Optical Sensing in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Electro-Optics in Space, Broadband Optical Networks, 2000. Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Conference_Location

Aventura, FL, USA

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6252-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2000.869747

Filename

869747