• 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