• DocumentCode
    2631012
  • Title

    All-optical 3R regeneration in monolithic SOA-MZI to achieve 0.4 million km fiber transmission

  • Author

    Funabashi, Masaki ; Zhu, Zuqing ; Pan, Zhong ; Yoo, S.J.B. ; Paraschis, Loukas

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-28 Oct. 2005
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Lastpage
    138
  • Abstract
    An all-optical 3R regenerator that combines reshaping in SOA-MZIs and retiming in synchronously modulated LiNbO3 modulator is demonstrated in a fiber-recirculation loop to achieve up to 0.4 million km linear transmission maintaining Q-values above 20-dB.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Q-factor; lithium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2.5E5 km; 3R regenerator; LiNbO3; LiNbO3 modulator; Q-values; all-optical 3R regeneration; fiber transmission; fiber-recirculation loop; linear transmission; monolithic SOA-MZI; reshaping; retiming; synchronous modulation; Bit error rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical solitons; Pulse modulation; Repeaters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9217-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2005.1547916
  • Filename
    1547916