Bit Error Rate and Crosstalk Performance in Optical Cross Connect with Wavelength Converter

Author

Sim, Ngee Thiam ; Majumder, SP ; Islam, M.S.

Author_Institution

Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Sarwak

fYear

2006

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

281

Abstract

An analytical approach is presented for modelling crosstalk and to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network for link with optical cross connect (OXC). Factors that affect the magnitude of crosstalk in the OXC are investigated and identified. The effects of OXC induced crosstalk on the BER performance is evaluated at a bit rate of 10 Gb/s by optimizing different parameters. The results show that for optimized values of gate extinction ratio, filter transmission factor, and number of wavelengths and input fibers, the minimum input power is around -10dBm to -8dBm to maintain a BER of 10^-9.

Keywords

error statistics; optical crosstalk; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; bit error rate; crosstalk performance; optical cross connect; wavelength converter; wavelength division multiplexing network; Bit error rate; Bit rate; Extinction ratio; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance analysis; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. ICECE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

98432-3814-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2006.355626

Filename

4178462