Optical 3R regenerator using wavelength converters based on electroabsorption modulator for all-optical network applications

Author

Otani, T. ; Miyazaki, T. ; Yamamoto, S.

Author_Institution

Opt. Network Lab., KDD R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2000

fDate

4/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

433

Abstract

The optical 3R regenerator using electroabsorption modulators was evaluated at 10 Gbit/s in terms of the all-optical network application. Its reset of impairments induced by the fiber transmission was confirmed by carrying out the multiple recirculating loop experiment. The experimental result shows that the transmission distance could be extended by almost 1.5 times compared to the case when it was not used, inserting the optical regenerator between the two recirculating loops.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; all-optical network application; all-optical network applications; electroabsorption modulator; fiber transmission; multiple recirculating loop experiment; optical 3R regenerator; optical regenerator; recirculating loops; transmission distance; wavelength converters; Clocks; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.839042

Filename

839042