DocumentCode
449111
Title
Optical timing jitter transfer characteristics of a 40 Gb/s hybrid integrated SOA-Mach-Zehnder interferometer all-optical regenerator
Author
Poustie, A. ; Wyatt, R. ; McDougall, R. ; Maxwell, G. ; Hemenway, B.R.
Author_Institution
Centre for Integrated Photonics, Ipswich, UK
Volume
3
fYear
2005
fDate
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
413
Abstract
The optical jitter transfer characteristics are measured for a SOA-MZI all-optical regenerator operated in 2R and 3R mode. A tenfold reduction in timing jitter is demonstrated with controllable jitter applied to the input optical data.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; timing jitter; 2R mode; 3R mode; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical regenerator; controllable jitter; hybrid Mach-Zehnder interferometer; integrated SOA-MZI; optical timing jitter transfer; timing jitter reduction;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location
IET
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-86341-543-1
Type
conf
Filename
1576307
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