DocumentCode
1293642
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
Volume
35
Issue
23
fYear
1999
fDate
11/11/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
2047
Lastpage
2049
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19991367
Filename
819052
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