An electroabsorption modulator-based network architecture for particle physics applications

Abstract

The forthcoming increase in rate of data production and radiation levels, associated with the transition to High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, necessitates a readout link upgrade. Such upgrade is also an opportunity to move to a more efficient network infrastructure through the introduction of new technologies and it is in light of this that we explore the possibility of using a unified optical network architecture based on using Reflective Electroabsorption Modulators at the detector side. We evaluate the performance of the new architecture and investigate the way operating and environmental parameters such as wavelength and temperature affect it. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.