USING LABVIEW FOR ADVANCED NONLINEAR OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE SIMULATIONS IN HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS

We present an advanced and comprehensive semiconductor optical amplifier model to analyse the propagation and amplification of 10 to 160 Gb/s ultra-short pulse sequences.Through appropriate transformation,the partial differential propagation- rate equation problem is numerically solved in a two-dimesional grid of fine resolution.The corresponding simulator, entirely programmed in LabVIEW, is compared to its counterpart implemented in a popular high-level language that resembles a mathematical lab. In terms of computational time the LabVIEW implementation shows a tenfold outperformance when typical random sequences of 40 Gb/s and 8 to 1024 bits are tested. The performance results presented here apply to a broader set of device models.