Performance analysis of ring-resonator based optical backplane for DPSK transmission at 10 Gb/s

Author

Magarini, Maurizio ; Maier, G. ; Alam, M.

Author_Institution

Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In order to overcome the limits imposed by today´s electronic backplane, the architectures that implement optical switching without any need of optoelectronic conversion are gaining a lot of interest. We focus on a micro-ring resonator structure based on optical backplanes for router line-card interconnection. The feasibility of the architecture is investigated by analysing the bit error rate performance for differential binary phase-shift keying transmission of non-return zero signals at 10 Gb/s. The sensitivity to different parameters such as number of line cards, switching-element round-trip losses and frequency drifting due to thermal variations is analysed by means of computer simulations.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; error statistics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical resonators; optical switches; DPSK transmission; bit error rate performance; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; differential binary phase-shift keying transmission; electronic backplane; frequency drifting; microring resonator; nonreturn zero signals; optical backplane; optical switching; performance analysis; router line-card interconnection; switching-element round-trip losses; thermal variations; Adaptive optics; Backplanes; Bit error rate; Integrated optics; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Signal to noise ratio; BER analysis; assignment and routing algorithms; network optimization; networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876604

Filename

6876604