Title :
Performance of 40 Gbps signals in a folded-path optical delay buffer
Author :
Yeo, Yong-Kee ; Yu, Jianjun ; Chang, Gee-Kung
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
The feasibility of storing 40 Gbps RZ-OOK and RZ-DPSK signals in dynamically reconfigurable, folded-path optical delay buffers is demonstrated for the first time. For RZ-DPSK signals, the power penalty due to the buffer is negligible.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; delays; differential phase shift keying; optical fibre communication; 40 Gbit/s; RZ-DPSK signals; RZ-OOK signals; folded-path buffer; optical delay buffer; power penalty; Delay lines; Feedforward systems; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical saturation; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547889
