A WDM Optical Backplane with AWG Based Passive Routing

Author

Kyriakis-Bitzaros, E.D. ; Grivas, E. ; Halkias, G. ; Katsafouros, S. ; Dumon, P. ; Morthier, G. ; Baets, R. ; Farell, T. ; Ryan, N. ; McKenzie, I. ; Armadillo, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron., Attiki

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An optical backplane based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is introduced. It is a tunable transmitter fixed receiver (TT-FR) architecture, which incorporates an NtimesN arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) element for passive data routing. A four-node prototype has been built using high-speed FPGAs for the implementation of the control plane. Bit-error-rate (BER) versus power incident on the receiver using three different AWGs has been measured at a data rate of 10 Gbps per link under static and dynamically changing configurations.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; error statistics; field programmable gate arrays; optical backplanes; optical links; optical receivers; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; WDM optical backplane; arrayed waveguide grating element; bit-error-rate; high-speed FPGA; passive data routing; tunable transmitter fixed receiver architecture; wavelength division multiplexing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Backplanes; Field programmable gate arrays; High speed optical techniques; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Prototypes; Routing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG); Optical backplane; Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion, Crete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2006.4350206

Filename

4350206