Test setup for optical burst-mode receivers

Author

Faucher, Julien ; Mony, Madeleine ; Plant, David V.

Author_Institution

McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

19-20 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

123

Lastpage

128

Abstract

This paper proposes a test setup that can accurately measure the lock acquisition time of conventional and burst mode receivers subjected to phase, frequency, or amplitude steps. This work will be useful to network architects and circuit designers who wish to know with precision how many bits a receiver needs to acquire lock. The technique for measuring lock acquisition time, or preamble length, is based on an acceptable BER for the payload. Measurement results for the lock acquisition time of two commercially available OC-48 receiver chips will be presented.

Keywords

automatic testing; error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical phase locked loops; optical receivers; optical testing; packet switching; telecommunication switching; BER; OC-48 receiver chips; automated measurements; burst switching; conventional receivers; lock acquisition time; optical burst-mode receivers; packet switching; phase detection; phase locked loops; preamble length; test setup; Bit error rate; Clocks; Frequency measurement; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Passive optical networks; Payloads; Testing; Time measurement; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lightwave Technologies in Instrumentation and Measurement Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8722-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LTIMC.2004.1371007

Filename

1371007