Novel scheme for reducing the pattern effect in 40 Gbps SOA based all-optical switch utilizing transparent CW assist light

Author

Tsurusawa, Munefumi ; Nishimura, Kohsuke ; Usami, Masashi

Author_Institution

KDD R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

177

Abstract

We have successfully confirmed the reduction of the pattern effect in semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based all-optical switches at 40 Gb/s operation, utilizing the transparent CW assist light which clamped the gain profile of the SOA. Error-free operation without an error floor was obtained with a power penalty of 1 dB compared with the input data stream. The receiver sensitivity improvement of 2.3 dB was confirmed at BER=10^-9. The scheme for the reduction of the pattern effect is an attractive method for high-speed operation because the required signal powers can be small

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; BER; SOA based all-optical switch; SOA gain profile clamping; WDM networks; all-optical signal processing; error-free operation; high-speed operation; pattern effect reduction; power penalty; receiver sensitivity improvement; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal powers; transparent CW assist light; Bit error rate; High speed optical techniques; Lighting control; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, 2001. IPRM. IEEE International Conference On

Conference_Location

Nara

ISSN

1092-8669

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6700-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPRM.2001.929085

Filename

929085