Title :
Coherent 40 Gb/s SP-16QAM and 80 Gb/s PDM-16QAM in an optimal supercomputer optical switch fabric
Author :
Karinou, Fotini ; Borkowski, Robert ; Zibar, D. ; Roudas, I. ; Monroy, I.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
Abstract :
We demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of using 40 Gb/s SP-16QAM and 80 Gb/s PDM-16QAM in an optimized cell switching supercomputer optical interconnect architecture based on semiconductor optical amplifiers as ON/OFF gates.
Keywords :
fabrics; optical switches; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ON/OFF gates; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; coherent PDM-16QAM; coherent SP-16QAM; optimal supercomputer optical switch fabric; optimized cell switching supercomputer optical interconnect architecture; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Bit error rate; Fabrics; Optical noise; Optical switches; Osmosis; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
