40Gb/s operation performance of an optical serial-to-parallel converter with phase-shifted preamble and Mach-Zehnder delay interferometers

Abstract

We present the new scheme of the OSPC. From the waveform calculation, we found the proposed scheme can be operated successively. And also in the analysis of the effect of optical loss on BER, we showed that 2 bit- and 27 bit-operation could be expected for InGaAsP and silica, respectively. From these analytical studies, the operating potential of the proposed OSPC could be confirmed.