Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed January 22, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70).

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-64). Also available on the World Wide Web.

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Methods of noise coupling in high speed thick film circuits has been investigated. Parasitic coupling parameters have been experimentally determined for a variety of single and multilayer thick film layouts. In addition, the severity of the problem has been studied by measuring coupled noise induced on carefully constructed test cards. Curves are presented as an aid for predicting noise levels as a function of conductor spacing and signal edge speed. The measurements are discussed quantitatively and guidelines for the design of high speed thick film circuits are summarized.

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Ku Yuen Ching. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-62). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Overview of optical networking --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Multi-wavelength optical networks --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Building blocks --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Performance limitations --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3 --- Related work about homodyne crosstalk --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- The motivation of this thesis --- p.9 / Chapter 1.5 --- Outline of this thesis --- p.10 / Chapter 2 --- Crosstalk in WDM Networks --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Classification of optical crosstalk --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Nonlinear crosstalk --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Linear crosstalk --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- Crosstalk characteristics --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Polarization states --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Wavelengths --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Phases --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Crosstalk mitigation techniques --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Manchester-encoding --- p.18 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Bit-pattern misalignment --- p.19 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Intra-bit modulation --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Phase scrambling --- p.20 / Chapter 2.5 --- Performance analysis --- p.21 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Gaussian approximation --- p.22 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Saddlepoint approximation --- p.24 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Modified Chernoff bound --- p.25 / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Comparison --- p.26 / Chapter 2.6 --- Summary --- p.26 / Chapter 3 --- Optical Regeneration for Crosstalk Mitigation --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- Optical regeneration techniques --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Fiber based gate --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Semiconductor based gate --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3 --- Crosstalk mitigation using SOA-MZI --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- The experimental setup --- p.35 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- All-active SOA-MZI --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Results and discussion --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Summary --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4 --- Crosstalk mitigation using SPM spectrum filtering --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- The experimental setup --- p.40 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Results and discussion --- p.41 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Summary --- p.44 / Chapter 4 --- Polarimetric Approach for Crosstalk Mitigation for Both 00K and DPSK Format --- p.45 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experimental setup --- p.46 / Chapter 4.3 --- Results and discussion --- p.47 / Chapter 4.4 --- Summary --- p.49 / Chapter 5 --- Crosstalk Accumulation Analysis --- p.50 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.50 / Chapter 5.2 --- Theory and model --- p.51 / Chapter 5.3 --- Results and discussion --- p.54 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.56 / Chapter 6 --- Summary and Future Works --- p.57 / Chapter 6.1 --- Summary of the thesis --- p.57 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future works --- p.58 / Bibliography --- p.59 / Chapter A. --- Appendix A - List of publications --- p.63

Track assignment is a critical step between global routing and detailed routing in modern VLSI chip designs. It greatly affects some very important design characteristics, such as routability, via usage and timing performance. Crosstalk, which is largely decided by wire adjacency, has significant impact on interconnect delay and circuit performance. Therefore, the amount of crosstalk should be restrained in order to satisfy timing constraints. In this work, a track assignment approach is proposed to control crosstalk-induced performance degradation. The problem is formulated as a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and solved by a graph-based heuristic. The proposed approach is implemented and tested on benchmark circuits from the ISPD2011 contest and the experimental results are quite promising.

Optical fiber access technology is the key to realize a broadband communication for everyone, and the passive optical network (PON) is enabling customers to enjoy high-speed internet access now. As the demand for the broadband access is still growing, a study to find out technologies to realize wider bandwidth for the access system is quite important. At this moment, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) PON is the most promising technology for the future optical fiber access system. Current PON system covers a reach of within 20km from a central office, because the market of the access system is focusing on well-populated area. It is required to extend the reach of the PON system to enhance the applicable area, because there are many regions in the world where are not so highly populated. Therefore, this master thesis is focusing on to enhance the reach of the WDM-PON system. A little more specifically, a single fiber bidirectional 80 km WDM PON system with symmetric up-and-downstream data rate of 10.66Gb/s is reported. In order to enhance the reach of the WDM-PON system, Raman amplifier is utilized. As the Raman amplifier can amplify both directional optical signals simultaneously, it is quite effective to enhance the reach of the WDM-PON system. Even though, there are several effects that cause performance degradations of the system by introducing the Raman amplifier. It is important to clarify such effects and to provide solutions. This thesis discusses these issues also. One factor to degrade the system performance is the Rayleigh backscattering. As the Raman amplifier amplifies the Rayleigh backscattering, it interferes to the signal and causes the crosstalk penalty. At first, an experimental study has been conducted to clarify the significance of the Rayleigh backscattering, and the method to overcome the crosstalk penalty is presented. Then, another experiment to realize 80km WDM PON system with Raman amplifier is conducted, and it demonstrates a feasibility of such system. Finally, this thesis is concluded by a successful demonstration of the WDM-PON system with an enhanced reach.