• DocumentCode
    2850528
  • Title

    Fundamental limits on energy use in optical networks

  • Author

    Kilper, D.C. ; Neilson, D. ; Stiliadis, D. ; Suvakovic, D. ; Goyal, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Fundamental energy limits in communication systems are reviewed and applied to a gedanken network model in order to determine the corresponding ideal minimum energy requirements on classical, non-adiabatic, uniform-demand optical networks.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre networks; communication systems; fundamental energy limits; gedanken network model; nonadiabatic optical networks; uniform-demand optical networks; CMOS integrated circuits; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical transmitters; Photonics; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621584
  • Filename
    5621584