STARNET-II-An optically-amplified direct-detection WDM computer communications network

Author

Sadot, D. ; Agrawal, S.K. ; Kazovsky, L.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Volume

8

Issue

9

fYear

1996

Firstpage

1235

Lastpage

1237

Abstract

STARNET-II is an experimental optically-amplified direct-detection WDM multi-Gb/s optical LAN. This letter describes STARNET-II design, optimization and full node implementation. A packet loss ratio of 3.9/spl middot/10/sup -8/ (recommended for multimedia applications) is demonstrated; the corresponding BER is 7.6/spl middot/10/sup -11/. Both power budget and channel spacing of STARNET-II support up to 80 nodes.

Keywords

multimedia communication; optical fibre LAN; optical losses; optical signal detection; optimisation; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; STARNET-II; STARNET-II design optimization; channel spacing; full node implementation; multimedia applications; optically-amplified direct-detection WDM computer communications network; optically-amplified direct-detection WDM multi-Gb/s optical LAN; packet loss ratio; power budget; Application software; Communication networks; Computer networks; Design optimization; Local area networks; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical losses; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.531847

Filename

531847