Title :
Digitally tunable optical power equalization for large port count optical switches
Author :
Chen, Luo-nan ; Hulme, J. ; Sohdi, A. ; Roth, Joseph ; Kaman, V. ; Fish, Gregory ; Bowers, John E. ; Theogarajan, Luke
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A digitally tunable optical power control loop with dynamic range >25dB is designed to compensate losses in large port count multi-stage switch fabrics. At 10 Gb/s with 7.7dBm of input power, the BER is 6.95×10-12.
Keywords :
error statistics; fabrics; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical control; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical switches; optical tuning; BER; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; digitally tunable optical power control loop; digitally tunable optical power equalization; dynamic range; large port count multistage optical switch fabrics; loss compensation; CMOS integrated circuits; Detectors; Integrated optics; Optical attenuators; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon;
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
