• DocumentCode
    608429
  • Title

    Coherent 40 Gb/s SP-16QAM and 80 Gb/s PDM-16QAM in an optimal supercomputer optical switch fabric

  • Author

    Karinou, Fotini ; Borkowski, Robert ; Zibar, D. ; Roudas, I. ; Monroy, I.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Rio, Greece
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    17-21 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of using 40 Gb/s SP-16QAM and 80 Gb/s PDM-16QAM in an optimized cell switching supercomputer optical interconnect architecture based on semiconductor optical amplifiers as ON/OFF gates.
  • Keywords
    fabrics; optical switches; quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; ON/OFF gates; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; coherent PDM-16QAM; coherent SP-16QAM; optimal supercomputer optical switch fabric; optimized cell switching supercomputer optical interconnect architecture; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Bit error rate; Fabrics; Optical noise; Optical switches; Osmosis; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0457-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6532569