Experimental PSK/ASK transceiver for the STARNET WDM computer communication network

Author

Hickey, Michael ; Barry, Charles ; Noronha, Ciro ; Kazovsky, Leonid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

5

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

568

Lastpage

571

Abstract

STARNET is an optical wavelength-division-multiplexed computer communication network that offers each user both a circuit-switched subnetwork and a packer-switched subnetwork. The authors constructed an experimental STARNET node transceiver. The transceiver uses one integrated phase and amplitude modulator to transmit 125 Mb/s amplitude-modulated packet-switched data and 2.488 Gb/s phase modulated circuit-switched data using the same lightwave. The transmitter has an output power of 5 dBm at 1.32 mu m. The receiver recovers the circuit-switched and packet-switched data using heterodyne detection and has a sensitivity of -25 dBm. The resulting system power budget is 30 dB.<>

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; computer networks; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical modulation; packet switching; phase shift keying; sensitivity; transceivers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.32 micron; 125 Mbit/s; 2.488 Gbit/s; IR; PSK/ASK transceiver; STARNET WDM computer communication network; STARNET node transceiver; amplitude modulator; amplitude-modulated; circuit-switched subnetwork; heterodyne detection; integrated phase modulator; output power; packer-switched subnetwork; phase modulated; receiver; sensitivity; system power budget; wavelength-division-multiplexed; Amplitude shift keying; Circuits; Optical computing; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Transceivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.215284

Filename

215284