A WDM Optical Backplane with AWG Based Passive Routing

An optical backplane based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is introduced. It is a tunable transmitter fixed receiver (TT-FR) architecture, which incorporates an NtimesN arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) element for passive data routing. A four-node prototype has been built using high-speed F...

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Hauptverfasser:	Kyriakis-Bitzaros, E.D., Grivas, E., Halkias, G., Katsafouros, S., Dumon, P., Morthier, G., Baets, R., Farell, T., Ryan, N., McKenzie, I., Armadillo, E.
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) Arrayed waveguide gratings Backplanes Field programmable gate arrays High speed optical techniques Optical backplane Optical receivers Optical transmitters Optical waveguides Prototypes Routing Wavelength division multiplexing Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
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Zusammenfassung:	An optical backplane based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is introduced. It is a tunable transmitter fixed receiver (TT-FR) architecture, which incorporates an NtimesN arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) element for passive data routing. A four-node prototype has been built using high-speed FPGAs for the implementation of the control plane. Bit-error-rate (BER) versus power incident on the receiver using three different AWGs has been measured at a data rate of 10 Gbps per link under static and dynamically changing configurations.
ISSN:	2155-8507
DOI:	10.1109/PS.2006.4350206