• DocumentCode
    378308
  • Title

    Experimental demonstration of 15 dB extinction ratio improvement in a new 2R optical regenerator based on an MMI-SOA

  • Author

    De Merlier, J. ; Morthier, Geert ; Van Caenegem, T. ; Baets, Roel ; Moerman, Ingrid ; Van Daele, Peter

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Belgium
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    574
  • Abstract
    All-optical regeneration has been demonstrated for the first time using a 2×2 MMI-SOA, showing a digital-like transfer characteristic and an output extinction ratio of 22 dB for an input extinction ratio of 7 dB.
  • Keywords
    light interference; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; extinction ratio; multimode interference; optical regenerator; semiconductor optical amplifier; transfer characteristic; Etching; Extinction ratio; Interference; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Optimized production technology; Refractive index; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.989115
  • Filename
    989115