DocumentCode
3407740
Title
Experimental characteristics of an all-optical 2R regenerator with adjustable decision threshold
Author
Vanderhaegen, Bart ; Morthier, Geert ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
Volume
2
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
902
Abstract
We present measurements on a fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with Gain Clamped SOA´s in both arms. We obtained a true (i.e. on a linear scale) decision characteristic with extinction ratio´s of 10 dB. We also demonstrate that by varying the SOA currents, the decision threshold can be varied
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical 2R regenerator; decision threshold; extinction ratio; fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer; gain-clamped SOA; Arm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical saturation; Power generation; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5634-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.1999.812027
Filename
812027
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