Title :
Saturable absorber device for high bit rate all-optical regeneration
Author :
Oudar, Jean-Louis ; Nguyen, Hoang Trung ; Aubin, Guy ; Le, Quang Trung ; Bramerie, Laurent ; Gay, Mathilde ; Simon, Jean-Claude
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Photonics & Nanostruct., CNRS, Marcoussis, France
Abstract :
A new multiple-quantum-well saturable absorber (SA) device allowing power stabilization is described. Combined with the classical SA achieving extinction ratio improvement, it allows all-optical amplitude-shift-keying 2R signal regeneration. Furthermore its phase-preserving characteristics make it potentially useful to prevent phase noise accumulation in RZ DPSK signals.
Keywords :
optical repeaters; optical saturable absorption; quantum well devices; DPSK signals; all-optical amplitude-shift-keying 2R signal regeneration; high bit rate all-optical regeneration; multiple-quantum-well saturable absorber device; Differential phase shift keying; Microcavities; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Phase noise; Reflectivity;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7111-9
DOI :
10.1109/ACP.2010.5682495
