Title :
Ultrafast TDM transmission
Author_Institution :
Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Numerical simulations of propagation near the zero dispersion wavelength demonstrate the value of all-optical regeneration using a local optical clock source, all-optical clock recovery, and one or more all-optical switches. Third-order dispersion (TOD) compensation further improves performance. We show the distortion due to uncompensated TOD at 100 Gb/s. We show the improvement possible using imperfect nonlinear optical loop mirror switches and all-optical regenerators every 200 km, with 50 km amplifier spacing
Keywords :
compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical repeaters; optical switches; synchronisation; time division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; 100 km; 200 km; 400 km; 50 km; all-optical clock recovery; all-optical regeneration; all-optical regenerators; all-optical switches; amplifier spacing; imperfect nonlinear optical loop mirror switches; local optical clock source; numerical simulations; third-order dispersion compensation; ultrafast TDM transmission; zero dispersion wavelength; Clocks; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear optics; Numerical simulation; Optical distortion; Optical propagation; Optical switches; Repeaters; Time division multiplexing; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.737708
