Title :
Crosstalk optimization in low extinction-ratio switch fabrics
Author :
Yi Qian ; Mehrvar, Hamid ; Huixiao Ma ; Xiaoling Yang ; Kun Zhu ; Fu, H.Y. ; Dongyu Geng ; Goodwill, Dominic ; Dumais, Patrick ; Bernier, Eric
Author_Institution :
Commun. Technol. Lab., Huawei Technol. Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China
Abstract :
Intelligently setting nominally-idle cells in a PIC photonic switch reduces crosstalk. 100 Gb/s DP-QPSK simulation shows 0.3 dB OSNR improvement, for 13 dB extinction ratio of a practical photonic switch cell. The method operates correctly in a 10 Gb/s NRZ test-bed.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical crosstalk; optical modulation; photonic switching systems; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK simulation; OSNR improvement; PIC photonic switch; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; crosstalk optimization; crosstalk reduction; dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying; extinction ratio; low-extinction-ratio switch fabrics; nominally-idle cells; photonic integrated circuit; practical photonic switch cell; Crosstalk; Extinction ratio; Optical noise; Optical switches; Optimization; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th1I.4
