Title :
Comparing and combining photonics and electronics in information transmission and processing
Author_Institution :
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Abstract :
Photonic transmission capacities are now exceeding 1 Tb/s over a single fiber (the highest results today are around 3 Tb/s), this limit being achieved by several laboratories in 1996. These results were obtained by a combination of TDM, time division multiplexing and WDM, wavelength division multiplexing. This development has called for matching capabilities in the electronics interfaces, and this paper aims to briefly elucidate some of the issues involved.
Keywords :
Optical crosstalk; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Photonics; Repeaters; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1999. ESSCIRC '99. Proceedings of the 25th European
Conference_Location :
Duisburg, Germany
