Conference Proceedings
Baseband optical carrier-sense multiple access - demonstration and sensitivity measurements
E Wong, SK Marks, MA Summerfield, RDT Lauder
Conference on Optical Fiber Communication Technical Digest Series | Published : 2001
Abstract
We demonstrate for the first time baseband optical carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance. We evaluate the performance of the baseband carrier-sense circuit with bit- and packet-error-rate measurements. The sensitivity of the carrier-sense circuit is -51.6 dBm.