Investigation of Multi-Wavelength Regeneration Employing Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers beyond 40Gb/s

Author

Spyropoulou, M. ; Sygletos, S. ; Tomkos, Ioannis

Author_Institution

Athens Inf. Technol. Center, Athens

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

105

Abstract

In this paper, we examine for the first time to our knowledge, the potential of all optical regeneration for multiple input wavelengths at bit-rates beyond 40 Gb/s. The system parameters have been investigated assuming two and four channel operation. Successful regeneration has been achieved for two input channels at 40 Gb/s and 160 Gb/s. Four channel operation at 40 Gb/s has been investigated as well, illustrating Q-factor improvement and amplitude fluctuation suppression at the marks.

Keywords

Q-factor; optical communication equipment; optical repeaters; quantum dot lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Q-factor improvement; amplitude fluctuation suppression; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; multi-wavelength regeneration; multiple input wavelengths; optical regeneration; quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers; Costs; Information technology; Nonlinear optics; Optical wavelength conversion; Probes; Pulse modulation; Quantum dots; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; cross-gain modulation; multi-wavelength regeneration; quantum-dots; semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296041

Filename

4296041