• DocumentCode
    1261269
  • Title

    All-optical 2R regeneration based on integrated asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer incorporating MMI-SOA

  • Author

    De Merlier ; Morthier ; Van Daele ; Moerman ; Baets

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2/28/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    238
  • Lastpage
    239
  • Abstract
    2R regeneration is proposed with an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer containing a monomodal semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and an SOA with a 1 × 1 multimode interference (MMI) coupler-SOA in the arms. Simulations and measurement of the static transfer function show a digital shape with a high extinction ratio improvement
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical couplers; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; MMI-SOA; all-optical 2R regeneration; extinction ratio improvement; integrated asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer; monomodal semiconductor optical amplifier; multimode interference coupler; static transfer function;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20020168
  • Filename
    990218