Demonstration of optically-assisted reconfigurable average of two 20-Gbaud 4-phase-encoded data channels using nonlinear wave mixing.
Opt Lett
; 48(17): 4617-4620, 2023 Sep 01.
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ABSTRACT
Networks can play a key role in high-speed and reconfigurable arithmetic computing. However, two performance bottlenecks may arise when (i) relying solely on electronics to handle computation for multiple data channels at high data rates, and (ii) the data streams input to a processing node (PN) are transmitted as phase-encoded signals over an optical network. We experimentally demonstrate the operation of optically-assisted reconfigurable average of two 4-phase-encoded data channels at 10- and 20-Gbaud rates. Our input signals are two streams of 2-bit numbers representing a binary floating-point format, and the operation results in 7-phase-encoded output signals represented by 3-bit numbers. The average operation is achieved in three stages (1) phase encoding and division-using an optical modulator to encode the data streams; (2) summation-using a highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF); and (3) multicast-using a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide to multicast back the result into the original signal wavelengths. The experimental results validate the concept, and the measured penalties indicate that (i) the error vector magnitudes (EVMs) of optical signals increase at each stage and reach â¼18-21% for the final multicast results, and (ii) compared to the inputs, the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty of output is â¼6.7â
dB for the 10-Gbaud rate and â¼6.9â
dB for the 20-Gbaud rate at a bit error rate (BER) of 3.8e-3.
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