Title :
Wavelength-preserving polarization-insensitive all-optical 3R regenerator utilizing raman amplification, cross- and self-phase modulation, and offset filtering
Author :
Chung, Sung Han ; Cartledge, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON
Abstract :
Wavelength preserving 3R regeneration is demonstrated that is insensitive to the input signal state-of-polarization. Distributed Raman amplification is used to enhance cross-phase modulation and allows the retiming and reshaping stages to simultaneously achieve good performance.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; light polarisation; optical filters; optical repeaters; self-phase modulation; all-optical 3R regenerator; cross-phase modulation; distributed Raman amplification; polarization insensitivity; wavelength-preserving 3R regeneration; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical transmitters; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688522
