Abstract
The scalability for optical multichannel networks and interconnects is an important design issue to accommodate an ever-growing number of users. It is therefore important that the channel selector at each node should be scalable to a large number of channels. However, the accumulation of interferometric cross-talk from each node may impose a strict constraint on the size of such a system. Recently we demonstrated a 1024-channel TDM tuner, which can be rapidly reconfigured to access any channel in a 50-Gbit/s OTDM system. Based on the cross-talk properties of the tuner, we consider in this paper the scalability of an OTDM interconnect system for a large number of nodes. The TDM tuner consists of a passive feedforward delay-lattice of k stages and two modulators at the input and output of the delay.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998 |
Subtitle of host publication | CLEO 98 : Technical Digest |
Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, United States |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 4-5 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Volume | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 1557523390 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 May 1998 |
Event | 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: 3 May 1998 → 8 May 1998 |
Conference
Conference | 1998 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO |
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Abbreviated title | CLEO '98 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Francisco, CA |
Period | 3/05/98 → 8/05/98 |
Keywords
- large optical TDM interconnects
- interferometric crosstalk
- electro-optical modulators
- passive feedforward delay-lattice