Title :
All-optical 3R regeneration at 40 Gb/s in a recirculating loop utilizing raman amplification, nonlinear phase modulation, and offset filtering
Author :
Chung, Sung Han ; Tang, Xuefeng ; Cartledge, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The performance of an all-optical 3R regenerator for 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK signals is investigated experimentally using a recirculating loop. A power penalty of 1.2 dB is obtained for 100 loops (8,000 km).
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical repeaters; phase modulation; RZ-OOK signals; Raman amplification; all-optical 3R regeneration; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; distance 8000 km; nonlinear phase modulation; offset filtering; power penalty; recirculating loop; Clocks; Delay effects; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Filters; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Phase modulation; Repeaters; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
