Investigation of a 2R all-optical regenerator based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

Author

Simos, H. ; Bogris, A. ; Syvridis, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

22

Issue

2

fYear

2004

Firstpage

595

Lastpage

604

Abstract

The properties of an all-optical 2R regenerator based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are investigated. The regeneration is based on the nonlinear FWM transfer function and a study of the system´s static behavior reveals the operating conditions, under which the transfer function approaches most the ideal, step-like discrimination characteristic function. A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is employed in order to overcome the SOAs speed limitations due to limited carrier dynamics. The simulations with dynamic input data by means of extinction ratio (ER) and Q-factor calculations, showed satisfactory regenerative behavior up to 40 Gb/s.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Q-factor; coupled mode analysis; extinction coefficients; multiwave mixing; optical repeaters; optical transfer function; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 2R all-optical regenerator; FBG; FWM; Q-factor; SOA; carrier dynamics; extinction ratio; fiber Bragg grating; four-wave mixing; nonlinear FWM transfer function; semiconductor optical amplifier; Bit rate; Crosstalk; Degradation; Four-wave mixing; Optical noise; Optical wavelength conversion; Pulse amplifiers; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Transfer functions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2003.822005

Filename

1278504