40-Gb/s 3R Burst Mode Regenerator Using Four Integrated MZI Switches

Author

Petrantonakis, D. ; Kanellos, G.T. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Pleros, N. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ.

Volume

19

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

290

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical 3R burst mode regenerator operating error-free with 40-Gb/s data packets. It is comprised of a sequence of four hybridly integrated semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometric switches and is shown to operate with short, variable length and asynchronous data packets, with a dynamic range of 9.3 dB

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical burst switching; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder switches; all-optical 3R regenerator; asynchronous data packets; burst mode regenerator; error-free operation; hybridly integrated laser; integrated switches; interferometric switches; optical burst switching; semiconductor optical amplifier; Circuits; Clocks; Dynamic range; Optical fiber networks; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse compression methods; Burst mode regenerator (BMR); dynamic range; integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI); optical burst switching; optical packet switching; optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.890051

Filename

4116746