Title : 
Evidence of noise compression by cross gain compression in SOAs
         
        
            Author : 
Contestabile, G. ; Proietti, R. ; Calabretta, N. ; Giorgi, L. ; Ciaramella, E.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Effective compression of the noise distributions in optical NRZ signals by exploiting cross-gain-compression in SOAs is reported. First transmission results show that this simple technique can be used for all-optical 2R regeneration without wavelength conversion.
         
        
            Keywords : 
data compression; optical communication equipment; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; all-optical 2R regeneration; cross gain compression; noise compression; optical NRZ signals; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse inverters; Repeaters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-55752-803-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OFC.2006.215810