• DocumentCode
    386126
  • Title

    Analysis of noise suppression in cascaded all-optical regenerators

  • Author

    Mork, Jesper ; Öhman, Filip ; Bischoff, Svend

  • Author_Institution
    COM, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    141
  • Abstract
    We derive an approximate analytical expression for the BER of cascaded links with all-optical regenerators and use it for performing a general analysis of the interplay between noise and the non-linearity of the regenerator characteristic.
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; error statistics; nonlinear optics; optical noise; optical repeaters; BER; approximate analytical expression; cascaded all-optical regenerators; cascaded links; noise suppression; optical nonlinearity; regenerator characteristic; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; Noise figure; Noise level; Optical noise; Repeaters; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Transfer functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7500-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2002.1133967
  • Filename
    1133967