Title :
Regeneration using an SOA-MZI in a 100-pass 10,000-km Recirculating Fiber Loop
Author :
Wang, Jade P. ; Savage, Shelby J. ; Robinson, Bryan S. ; Hamilton, Scott A. ; Ippen, Erich P. ; Mu, Ruomei ; Wang, Hongsheng ; Spiekman, Leo ; Stefanov, Boris B.
Author_Institution :
M.I.T., Lexington
Abstract :
We demonstrate all-optical regeneration in an SOA-MZI on a 10-Gb/s picosecond pulse train over 10,000 km in a 100-km recirculating loop. The bit-error rate after 100 loop-passes shows a 0.5-dB penalty.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; error statistics; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; SOA-MZI; all-optical regeneration; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; distance 100 km; distance 10000 km; recirculating fiber loop; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Distortion measurement; Laboratories; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse measurements; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452669
