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

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2379

Lastpage

2381

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);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.857592

Filename

1522326