DocumentCode
1484343
Title
Penalty-free error-free all-optical data pulse regeneration at 84 Gb/s by using a symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type semiconductor regenerator
Author
Ueno, Yoshiyasu ; Nakamura, Shigeru ; Tajima, Kazuhito
Author_Institution
Photonic & Wireless Devices Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki, Japan
Volume
13
Issue
5
fYear
2001
fDate
5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
469
Lastpage
471
Abstract
Penalty-free data-pulse regeneration at 84 Gb/s was achieved down to an error rate level of 1/spl times/10/sup -11/ by using a data pattern length of 2/sup 31/-1. A symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type all-optical polarization-insensitive semiconductor regenerator was used.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; symmetry; time division multiplexing; 84 Gbit/s; data pattern length; error rate level; penalty-free error-free all-optical data pulse regeneration; symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type all-optical polarization-insensitive semiconductor regenerator; symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type semiconductor regenerator; Clocks; Error analysis; Optical devices; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/68.920754
Filename
920754
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