How to use saturation effects in SOAs for all-optical processing

Author

Contestabile, Giampiero

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A review of schemes useful in a number of high-speed all-optical processing functions that exploit the gain saturation of a semiconductor optical amplifier without suffering from usual pattern-related distortions is reported. Application of pulse-limiting amplification to clock recovery and Cross Gain Compression to single and multicast conversion, 2R regeneration for NRZ, RZ and packets are discussed.

Keywords

clock and data recovery circuits; optical limiters; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; optical saturation; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; 2R regeneration; NRZ; all-optical clock recovery ciruits; all-optical processing; cross gain compression; gain saturation; multicast conversion; packets; pattern-related distortions; periodic pulse train-limiting amplification; semiconductor optical amplifier; single conversion; wavelength conversion; Band pass filters; Chirp; Clocks; Optical amplifiers; Optical distortion; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse circuits; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical processing; gain saturation; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3857-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3856-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307799

Filename

5307799