• DocumentCode
    452579
  • Title

    Very low coupling loss, hybrid-integrated all-optical regenerator with passive assembly

  • Author

    Maxwell, Graeme ; Manning, Bob ; Nield, Maurice ; Hariow, M. ; Ford, Colin ; Clements, Mick ; Lucas, Steve ; Townley, Phil ; McDougall, Rob ; Oliver, Steve ; Cecil, Rod ; Johnston, Lilianne ; Poustie, Alistair ; Webb, Rod ; Lealman, Ian ; Rivers, Lesley ;

  • Author_Institution
    Corning Res. Centre, Ipswich
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2002
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Total coupling losses as low as 4.37 dB (fibre to waveguide to semiconductor amplifier and back, excluding amplifier gain) were achieved using entirely passive alignment in a hybrid-integrated optical regenerator. Penalty-free 2R regeneration at 40 Gbit/s was demonstrated
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; optical losses; optical repeaters; 2R regeneration; 4.37 dB; 40 Gbit/s; coupling loss; hybrid-integrated all-optical regenerator; passive assembly;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Copenhagen
  • Print_ISBN
    87-90974-63-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1601403