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 ∼18–21% for the final multicast results, and (ii) compared to the inputs, the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty of output is ∼6.7 dB for the 10-Gbaud rate and ∼6.9 dB for the 20-Gbaud rate at a bit error rate (BER) of 3.8e-3.

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