Title :
43 Gb/s 264 km field fiber transmission using 2R regeneration in a tunable all-optical signal regenerator
Author :
Zhu, Zuqing ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Yoo, S.J.B. ; Ezra, S.B. ; Zaibel, Reuven ; Akasaka, Youichi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate all-optical 2R regeneration for 43 Gb/s signal after 264 km field fiber transmission. The experimental results show that the all-optical 2R regenerator creates a negative power penalty and achieves an all-optical RZ-to-NRZ conversion.
Keywords :
laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; 264 km; 43 Gbit/s; SOA; all-optical RZ-to-NRZ conversion; fiber transmission; negative power penalty; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable all-optical 2R signal regenerator; Chromatic dispersion; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201965
