• DocumentCode
    1825604
  • Title

    Effective all-optical RZ-to-NRZ conversion for transparent network gateways

  • Author

    Banchi, L. ; Presi, M. ; Errico, A.D. ; Contestabile, G. ; Ciaramella, E.

  • Author_Institution
    Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Cross gain compression in semiconductor optical amplifier provides effective RZ-to-NRZ conversion, with the highest obtained pulsewidth increase, from 10 to 100 ps. It allows transmission of the output 10 Gb/s NRZ signal on metro-like links with limited power penalty.
  • Keywords
    optical links; optical wavelength conversion; pulse width modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical RZ-to-NRZ conversion; cross gain compression; limited power penalty; metro-like links; pulsewidth; semiconductor optical amplifier; transparent network gateways; Chirp; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; (200.4740) Optical processing; (60.4510) Optical communications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032687