• DocumentCode
    1779325
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-16 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    314
  • Lastpage
    315
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995370
  • Filename
    6995370
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1779325