High-speed optical bit-pattern recognition employing fibre Bragg grating and Opto-VLSI processing

Authors

Muhsen Aljada, Edith Cowan University
Kamal Alameh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Rong Zheng, Edith Cowan University
Khalid Al-Begain

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Elsevier

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

Electron Science Research Institute (ESRI)

RAS ID

5167

Comments

Aljada, M. , Alameh, K. , Zheng, R. , & Al-Begain, K. (2006). High-speed optical bit-pattern recognition employing fibre Bragg grating and Opto-VLSI processing. Optics Communications, 265(2), 468-475. Available here

Abstract

We propose a novel optical bit-pattern recognition employing an Opto-VLSI processor in conjunction with an array of fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) with different Bragg wavelengths and a coherent-to-incoherent light converter. The FBG array slices the spectrum of the incoherent optical header and provides wavelength-dependent time delays, whereas the Opto-VLSI processor generates wavelength intensity profiles that match specific bit patterns. The recognition of 8-bit optical patterns is experimentally demonstrated at 2.2 Gb/s by showing that the correlator produces an autocorrelation waveform of high peak whenever the input bit pattern matches the wavelength intensity profile.

DOI

10.1016/j.optcom.2006.04.007