DocumentCode
600683
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
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0262-3
Type
conf
Filename
6476508
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