Low input power all-optical 3R regenerator based on SOA devices for 42.66 Gbit/s ULH WDM RZ transmissions with 23 dB span loss and all-EDFA amplification

Author

Lavigne, B. ; Balmefrezol, E. ; Brindel, P. ; Dagens, B. ; Brenot, R. ; Pierre, L. ; Moncelet, J.-L. ; de La Grandiere, D. ; Remy, J.-C. ; Bouley, J.-C. ; Thedrez, B. ; Leclerc, O.

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Marcoussis, France

fYear

2003

fDate

23-28 March 2003

Abstract

An all-optical 3R regenerator based on cascaded XGM-SOA and SOA-MZI is implemented in an all-EDFA 42.66 Gbit/s SMF/DCF dispersion-managed RZ loop with -11 dBm input power, yielding a BER of 1.6.10^-4 after 30,000 km in WDM environment with four 200 GHz-spaced adjacent channels.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; erbium; error statistics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 23 dB; 30000 km; 42.66 Gbit/s; BER; EDFA amplification; SMF/DCF dispersion-managed RZ loop; SOA-Mach-Zehnder interferometer; ULH WDM RZ transmissions; all-optical 3R regenerator; cross-gain modulation-SOA; span loss; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical surface waves; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation losses; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003

Print_ISBN

1-55752-746-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2003.1248596

Filename

1248596