Title :
BER estimation from measured eye diagrams of a wavelength regenerative converter employing a single-SOA
Author :
Ribeiro, Napoleao S. ; Conforti, Evandro ; Gallep, Cristiano M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microwave & Opt., Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil
Abstract :
Bit-error rate (BER) estimations are presented for an all-optical regenerator with wavelength conversion using just one semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) by means of the cross gain modulation (XGM) in a counter-propagation mode. The extinction ratio (ER) degradation and the quality (Q) factor improvement obtained by the regenerator are analyzed, and good experimental performances were achieved. Others measured features of this regenerative converter are also presented.
Keywords :
Q-factor; error statistics; optical modulation; optical repeaters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; BER; SOA; all-optical regenerator; bit-error rate estimations; counter-propagation mode; cross gain modulation; extinction ratio degradation; eye diagrams; quality factor; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength regenerative converter; Bit error rate; Degradation; Erbium; Extinction ratio; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance analysis; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength converters; Wavelength measurement; non linear optical; optical processing; semiconductor optical amlpifier; signal regeneration; wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2009 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
Belem
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5356-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1679-4389
DOI :
10.1109/IMOC.2009.5427502
