Title :
Storage-bit-rate product in slow-light optical buffers
Author :
Sedgwick, F.G. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J. ; Ku, P.C. ; Tucker, R.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Performance of slow-light optical buffers in a digital transmission link is simulated. Error rates are calculated for various bit rates and storage (number of bits stored). For a given power penalty, it is shown that storage-bit-rate product is a constant, suggesting an alternative performance metric to the delay-bandwidth product.
Keywords :
buffer storage; error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical storage; self-induced transparency; BER; bit error rate; delay-bandwidth product; digital transmission link; electromagnetically-induced transparency; power penalty; slow-light optical buffers; storage bit rate product;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20052258
