Title :
Measurements of very low bit-error rates for an optical packet switching node
Author :
Small, Benjamin A. ; Kato, Tatsuya ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
An improvement in the accuracy of the sinusoidal interference method used to extract bit-error rates (BERs) that cannot be easily measured with conventional laboratory equipment is proposed. This technique is then used to estimate the very low BER performance of a multiple-wavelength photonic switching node for a 16-wavelength packet payload. The switching node contribution to the estimated BER is determined to be no worse than 4×10-18 from an extrapolated q-factor of 8.6.
Keywords :
Q-factor; error statistics; optical fibre communication; packet switching; BER; bit-error rates; multiple-wavelength photonic switching node; optical packet switching; packet payload; sinusoidal interference method; switching node contribution; Bit error rate; Interference; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Packet switching; Payloads; Routing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Bit-error rate (BER); packet switching; photonic switching systems; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.857592
