Title :
Performance evaluation of a SOA-based rack-to-rack switch for optical interconnects exploiting NRZ-DPSK
Author :
Karinou, Fotini ; Borkowski, Robert ; Prince, Kamau ; Roudas, I. ; Monroy, I.T. ; Vlachos, Kostas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
Abstract :
We experimentally study the transmission performance of 10-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK through concatenated AWG MUX/DMUXs and SOAs employed in an optimized 64×64 optical supercomputer interconnect architecture. NRZ-DPSK offers 9-dB higher dynamic range compared to conventional IM/DD.
Keywords :
demultiplexing; differential phase shift keying; optical interconnections; semiconductor optical amplifiers; AWG MUX-DMUX; NRZ-DPSK; SOA-based rack-to-rack switch performance evaluation; differential phase shift keying; nonreturn-to-zero; optical supercomputer interconnect architecture; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Differential phase shift keying; Fabrics; Optical attenuators; Optical interconnections; Optical switches; Osmosis; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
