Synchronization Detection Using XGM in SOA for All-Optical Preprocessing

Author

Hisano, Daisuke ; Maruta, Akihiro ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Inf. Eng., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan

Volume

26

Issue

10

fYear

2014

fDate

15-May-14

Firstpage

1015

Lastpage

1018

Abstract

We report experimental demonstration of synchronization detection using semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). We show the feasibility with which the timing of the signal can be actually monitored and with little impact on signal light. When return-to-zero ON-OFF-keyed signal light and a probe light are launched into SOA, error-free operation at 10.7 Gb/s is demonstrated with small power penalty as compared with the case which the probe light is not launched, then the amplified signal can be directly used for the following all-optical processing circuit.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; optical information processing; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; SOA; XGM; all-optical processing circuit; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; cross gain modulation; error-free operation; power penalty; probe light; return-to-zero ON-OFF-keyed signal light; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal light; synchronization detection; Gain; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Timing; Semiconductor optical amplifier; optical signal processing; synchronous detection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2312379

Filename

6775287