• DocumentCode
    2988493
  • Title

    Jitter Reduction in a 40 Gb/s All-Optical Packet-Mode 3R Regenerator Using Integrated MZI-SOA Switches

  • Author

    Bakopoulos, P. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Poustie, A. ; Maxwell, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, GR 15773, Athens, Greece, e-mail: pbakop@mail.ntua.gr
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We describe phase jitter reduction from 4 to 1 ps for different optical packet lengths in an all-optical 40Gb/s 3R-regenerator, based on integrated MZI-SOAs. Error-free BER operation with 2.5 dB power penalty improvement is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    Circuits; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Jitter; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Packet switching; Repeaters; Switches; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801034
  • Filename
    4801034