160-Gb/s optical OFDM demultiplexer based on photonic ring resonators

Author

Vilar, R. ; Ramos, F. ; Marti, J.

Author_Institution

I.U. Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A novel all-optical OFDM demultiplexer based on integrated photonic ring resonators (RR) is proposed and its performance validated. The proposed optical OFDM demultiplexer overcome the processing speed limits introduced by electronics and is suitable for very large scale integration, providing a compact and cost-effective solution. The performance of this device considering a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform has been demonstrated by demultiplexing a 160-Gb/s (4-subcarrier × 40-Gb/s) OFDM signal. Simulations results show excellent BER performance with error-free operation for each demultiplexed subchannel.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; VLSI; demultiplexing equipment; error statistics; integrated optics; optical resonators; silicon-on-insulator; BER; OFDM signal; SOI platform; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; optical OFDM demultiplexer; photonic ring resonators; silicon-on-insulator; very large scale integration; Adaptive optics; Demultiplexing; OFDM; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical ring resonators; Resonator filters; Integrated Photonic devices; Optical Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM); Ring Resonators (RR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2012 17th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilanova i la Geltru

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0949-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0950-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NOC.2012.6249919

Filename

6249919