학술논문

Improvement of crosstalk tolerance in optical cross connects by regenerative frequency converters
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings of European Conference on Optical Communication Optical communications Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on. 4:119-122 vol.4 1996
Subject
Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Frequency conversion
Optical crosstalk
Repeaters
Optical frequency conversion
Optical transmitters
Optical receivers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Optical filters
Semiconductor lasers
Optical bistability
Language
Abstract
Crosstalk penalty in optical networks is investigated in a loop experiment at 5 Gbit/s. We demonstrate that in-band crosstalk can be tolerated up to a level of -19.5 dB per cross connect within a penalty of 2 dB (BER=10/sup -9/) for a chain of 5 cross connect paths with regenerative optical frequency converters.