Title :
100 Gbit/s parallel to-serial and serial to-parallel conversion using electroabsorption modulators
Author :
Lucek, J.K. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Pitcher, D. ; Gunning, P. ; Cotter, D.
Author_Institution :
BT Lab., Ipsich, UK
Abstract :
We show that electroabsorption modulators (EAMs) can be used as the basis of serial-to-parallel and parallel-to-serial convertors, the latter by demonstrating the use of an EAM to extract a 10 Gbit/s channel from a 100 Gbit/s serial bit-stream. We envisage that a further stage of serialisation or parallelisation would be carried out in the electrical domain at the transmitter and receiver respectively to fit in with the requirements of the backplane.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; multiprocessor interconnection networks; optical backplanes; optical fibre networks; optical receivers; optical transmitters; 10 Gbit/s; 100 Gbit/s; EAM; Gbit/s channel; Gbit/s parallel to-serial conversion; Gbit/s serial to-parallel conversion; electrical domain; electroabsorption modulators; optical backplane; receiver; serial bit-stream; transmitter; Backplanes; Converters; Data mining; Laboratories; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Oscilloscopes; Polarization; Sampling methods; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Broadband Optical Networks and Technologies: An Emerging Reality/Optical MEMS/Smart Pixels/Organic Optics and Optoelectronics. 1998 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4953-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.1998.689696
