Title :
40 Gb/s wavelength preserving polarization insensitive all-optical 3R regenerator utilizing Raman amplification, cross- and self-phase modulation, and offset filtering
Author :
Chung, Sung Han ; Tang, Xuefeng ; Cartledge, John C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
All-optical 3R regeneration is demonstrated at 40 Gb/s that is wavelength-preserving and insensitive to the state of polarization of the input signal. The regenerator consists of retiming and reshaping stages that must be carefully co-designed.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; filtering theory; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical repeaters; self-phase modulation; Raman amplification; all-optical 3R regenerator; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; offset filtering; reshaping stages; retiming stages; self-phase modulation; wavelength preserving polarization; Clocks; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Repeaters; Scanning probe microscopy; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Summer Topical Meeting, 2009. LEOSST '09. IEEE/LEOS
Conference_Location :
Newport Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3913-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1099-4742
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2009.5226218
