Title :
An all-optical regenerator that discriminates noise from signal
Author :
Rochette, Martin ; Blows, Justin L. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We explain the mechanisms of bit error ratio (BER) improvement in the Mamyshev regenerator. This regenerator removes noise from the data stream, in contrast with other regeneration schemes that compress the noise.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical fibre communication; optical noise; optical repeaters; Mamyshev regenerator; all-optical regenerator; bit error ratio; data stream; noise removal;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
