A network architecture for bidirectional data transfer in high-energy physics experiments using electroabsorption modulators
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Papadopoulos, Spyridon; Papakonstantinou, Ioannis; Vasey, Francois; Troska, Jan; Darwazeh, Izzat
- Source
- 2011 16th European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2011 16th European Conference on. :68-71 Jul, 2011
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Temperature measurement
Extinction ratio
Large Hadron Collider
Physics
Modulation
Detectors
Voltage measurement
- Language
We describe a network architecture for bidirectional transfer of information in the upgraded design of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Special requirements imposed by the application lead to a non-conventional network design compared to commercial telecommunication networks. The main factors driving the design are the highly asymmetric and upstream-intensive traffic and the requirement for low mass, low power and radiation hard front-end components. Following the analysis of the proposed network we focus on the temperature sensitivity of the selected front-end component and its impact on system performance.