Title :
20 Gbit/s optical 3R regenerator using SOA based Mach-Zehnder interferometer gate
Author :
Billès, L. ; Simon, J.C. ; Kowalski, B. ; Henry, M. ; Michaud, G. ; Lamouler, P. ; Alard, F.
Author_Institution :
CNET, Lannion, France
Abstract :
Feasibility of a 3R optical regenerator is demonstrated at 20 Gbit/s. Combination of optoelectronic clock recovery and all-optical reshaping gate using an SOA based Mach-Zehnder interferometer provides suppression of the error-rate floor of a degraded input signal
Keywords :
optical repeaters; 20 Gbit/s; Gbit/s optical 3R regenerator; Mach-Zehnder interferometer gate; SOA; all-optical reshaping gate; degraded input signal; error-rate floor; optoelectronic clock recovery combination;
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:19971469
