• DocumentCode
    1973799
  • Title

    All-optical signal regeneration using SOAs

  • Author

    Contestabile, Giampiero

  • Author_Institution
    Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    8-12 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    7
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    This invited contribution reports recent results on all-optical signal regeneration using SOAs. Those include a scheme based on cross-gain-compression (XGC) in common SOAs for wavelength preserving 2R regeneration of RZ and NRZ signals, and regenerative amplification up to 80 Gb/s obtained thanks to detuned filtering of SPM in QD-SOA.
  • Keywords
    semiconductor optical amplifiers; signal generators; NRZ signals; QD-SOA; SPM; all-optical signal regeneration; cross-gain-compression; detuned filtering; regenerative amplification; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength preserving 2R regeneration; Gain; Limiting; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2010 Asia
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7111-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACP.2010.5682860
  • Filename
    5682860