DESIGN ISSUES FOR BIT RATE-ADAPTIVE 3R O/E/OTRANSPONDER IN INTELLIGENT OPTICAL NETWORKS

摘要

This paper reported the design and implementation of a bit rate-adaptive Optical-Electronic-Optical (O/E/O) transponder accomplishing almost full data rate transparency up to 2.5 Gb/s with 3R (Reamplifying, Reshaping and Retiming) processing in electronic domain. Based on the chipsets performing clock recovery in several continuous bit rate ranges, a clock and data regenerating circuit self-adaptive to the bit rate of input signal was developed. Key design issues were presented, laying stress on the functional building blocks and scheme for the bit rate-adaptive retiming circuit. The experimental results show a good scalability performance.