Impact of fibre four-wave mixing wavelength converters on the packet error rate of IP applications

Author

Abbade, M.L.F. ; Marconi, J.D. ; Ishizuca, V. ; Cassiolato, R.L. ; Fonseca, I.E. ; Fragnito, H.L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., PUC-Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present an experimental investigation of cross-layer effect caused by fibre four-wave mixing (FWM) wavelength converters. Measurements, performed on a 40-km long standard fibre link located in a field-trial network, suggest that the use of such converters may induce power penalties as high as 2.9 dB on the packet error rate (PER) of Internet Protocol (IP) applications. We also present empirical equations that describe a relation between PER and the optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation induced by these wavelength converters.

Keywords

IP networks; multiwave mixing; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; FWM; IP applications; all-optical wavelength converters; fibre four-wave mixing wavelength converters; internet protocol applications; optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation; packet error rate; wavelength division multiplexing; Equations; Error analysis; Four-wave mixing; IP networks; Measurement standards; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance evaluation; Power measurement; Protocols; Wavelength measurement; Wavelength converters; cross-layer; four-wave mixing; optical signal-to-noise ratio; packet error rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2010 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7799-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7797-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2010.5549107

Filename

5549107