Title :
All-optical reconfigurable regenerative RZ to NRZ format converter based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a temporal photonic integrator
Author :
Cortes, L. Romero ; Azana, J.
Author_Institution :
Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci. - Energie, Mater. et Telecommun. (INRS-EMT), Montréal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A new method for all-optical RZ to NRZ format conversionis presented and numerically demonstrated. The output eye diagrams feature larger quality-factors than the input diagrams, and more significant improvements are observed for higher data-rates.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Q-factor; integrated optics; optical communication; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; all-optical reconfigurable RZ-NRZ format converter; output eye diagrams; quality-factors; regenerative RZ-NRZ format converter; temporal photonic integrator; Bit rate; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995370
