Title :
Integrated performance monitoring, performance maintenance, and failure detection for photonic regenerators
Author :
Lakshminarayana, Ganesh ; Mu, R.-M. ; Wang, Hongsheng ; Stefanov, Boris ; Dave, Bharat ; Sarathy, Jiten
Author_Institution :
Alphion Corp., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We have developed a novel technique, based on photocurrent measurement in an integrated photodetector, to stabilize the output of a P2R device and trigger restoration in the event of a failure.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical repeaters; photoconductivity; photodetectors; photoemission; semiconductor optical amplifiers; failure detection; performance maintenance; performance monitoring; photocurrent; photodetector; photonic regenerators;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
