Title :
All-optical regenerator using wavelength shift induced by cross-phase modulation in highly-nonlinear fibers
Author :
Suzuki, J. ; Tanemura, T. ; Taira, K. ; Ozeki, Y. ; Kikuchi, K.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate an all-optical regenerator based on the wavelength shift induced by cross-phase modulation in a highly-nonlinear fiber. Regeneration of a 10-Gb/s signal using the proposed scheme improves the Q-factor by 1.8 dB.
Keywords :
Q-factor; optical fibre communication; optical pulse generation; optical repeaters; self-phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Q-factor; all-optical regenerator; cross-phase modulation; highly-nonlinear fiber; wavelength shift; Circuits; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse amplifiers; Repeaters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192555
