DocumentCode
1584956
Title
All-optical 2R regeneration of BPSK and QPSK data using a 90° optical hybrid and integrated SOA-MZI wavelength converter pairs
Author
Nguyen, Kimchau N. ; Kise, Tomofumi ; Garcia, John M. ; Poulsen, Henrik N. ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.
Author_Institution
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fYear
2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We demonstrate all-optical 2R regeneration with a 90° optical hybrid and integrated MZI-SOA pairs for 10 Gb/s BPSK and 20 Gb/s QPSK with negative power penalty. Power penalty and OSNR improvements of 7 dB and 5 dB are shown with additive ASE noise.
Keywords
integrated optics; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; BPSK data; MZI wavelength converter pairs; QPSK data; additive ASE noise; all-optical 2R regeneration; integrated SOA; negative power penalty; optical hybrid; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase shift keying; Repeaters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0213-6
Type
conf
Filename
5875345
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