Title :
A regenerative variable optical buffer for NRZ and RZ packets
Author :
Berrettini, Gianluca ; Scotti, Filippo ; Contestabile, Giampiero ; Bogoni, Antonella
Author_Institution :
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
A re-circulating-loop optical memory exploiting regenerative amplification by cross-gain-compression in a SOA is reported. Hundred circulations with maximum delay of 130μs with 0.5dB power penalty every 10 rounds are obtained with 10Gbps NRZ and RZ-packets.
Keywords :
Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
