Title :
Optical 3R regenerator for 40 Gbit/s networks
Author :
Fischer, S. ; Dülk, M. ; Gamper, E. ; Vogt, W. ; Gini, E. ; Melchior, H. ; Hunziker, W. ; Nesset, D. ; Ellis, A.D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
fDate :
11/11/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A technological approach is presented for a compact optical 3R regenerator consisting of a monolithic InP Mach-Zehnder interferometer decision gate, incorporating semiconductor optical amplifiers, and an electronic clock recovery unit driving a simplistic 40 GHz optical clock source. Bit error rate measurements for 10 Gbit/s regeneration demonstrate a penalty <2 dB over a wide wavelength range
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; measurement errors; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; 40 GHz; 40 Gbit/s; GHz optical clock source; Gbit/s networks; Gbit/s regeneration; bit error rate measurements; compact optical 3R regenerator; electronic clock recovery unit; monolithic InP Mach-Zehnder interferometer decision gate; optical 3R regenerator; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wide wavelength range;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991367
