Title :
Strong improvement in optical signal regeneration and noise reduction through asymmetric biasing of Mach-Zehnder interferometric all optical wavelength converters
Author :
Gyselings, Tim ; Morthier, Geert ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
Abstract :
We demonstrate that a small shift in one of the bias currents of a Mach-Zehnder interferometric all optical wavelength converter reduces the BER drastically, without changing the bandwidth. A better optical signal regeneration and noise reduction is obtained
Keywords :
optical repeaters; Mach-Zehnder interferometric all optical wavelength converters; asymmetric biasing; bandwidth; bias currents; noise reduction; optical signal regeneration; small shift;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971449
