Reconfigurable all-optical byte recognition for 40-Gb/s phase-shift-keyed transmission using a planar-lightwave-circuit passive correlator

Author

Kang, I. ; Rasras, Mahmoud S. ; Dinu, M. ; Cappuzzo, Mark ; Gomez, L.T. ; Chen, Y.F. ; Buhl, Larry ; Cabot, S. ; Wong-Foy, A. ; Patel, Sanket S. ; Giles, C.R. ; Dutta, Nitul ; Jaques, James ; Piccirilli, A.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate all-optical recognition of byte patterns embedded in phase-shift-keyed data streaming at 40 Gb/s. We use matched filtering to generate an autocorrelation pulse indicating the pattern matching. Matched filtering is implemented using a reconfigurable silica planar-lightwave-circuit optical delay-line filter. We show excellent discrimination against spurious patterns consistent with the theoretical predictions.

Keywords

matched filters; optical correlation; optical delay lines; optical filters; optical planar waveguides; phase shift keying; autocorrelation pulse generation; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; data streaming; matched filtering; optical delay-line filter; passive correlator; phase-shift-keyed transmission; planar lightwave circuit; reconfigurable all-optical byte recognition; Autocorrelation; Correlators; Delay; Filtering; Matched filters; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Pattern matching; Pattern recognition; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528629

Filename

4528629