Physical Modeling of 10 GbE Optical Communication Systems

Author

Gholami, Asghar ; Molin, Denis ; Sillard, Pierre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Isfahan Univ. of Technol., Isfahan, Iran

Volume

29

Issue

1

fYear

2011

Firstpage

115

Lastpage

123

Abstract

A physical model of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) optical communications systems based on 50-μm graded-index multimode fibers (MMFs) is presented in this paper. It includes a model of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) that accounts for the spatiotemporal dynamic of such transversally multimode lasers, commonly used in 10 GbE optical systems, and an accurate MMF model. This complete model is compared to the 10 GBASE-S Link Budget Spreadsheet developed within the IEEE P802.3ae 10 GbE Task Force and to experimental transmissions. Finally, VCSEL-to-MMF interactions and their impacts on 10 GbE transmissions are detailed and explained.

Keywords

error statistics; local area networks; optical communication; optical interconnections; surface emitting lasers; Gigabit Ethernet; bit error rate; chromatic dispersion; multimode fibers; optical communication systems; optical interconnections; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Indexes; Mathematical model; Noise; Optical fiber communication; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Bit error rate (BER); chromatic dispersion; gigabit ethernet (GbE); modal dispersion; multimode fiber (MMF); optical interconnections; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2095454

Filename

5645645