All-Optical Four-Wavelength Burst Mode Regeneration Using Integrated Quad SOA-MZI Arrays

Author

Petrantonakis, D. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Poustie, A. ; Maxwell, G. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

Volume

20

Issue

23

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1953

Lastpage

1955

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical four-wavelength 3R burst mode regenerator, operating error-free with 10-Gb/s variable length data packets that exhibit 6-dB packet-to-packet power variation. The circuit was implemented using a sequence of three integrated quadruple semiconductor optical amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferomentric arrays.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical arrays; optical burst switching; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferomentric arrays; all-optical four-wavelength burst mode regeneration; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; error-free operation; four-wavelength 3R burst mode regenerator; integrated quad SOA-MZI arrays; packet-to-packet power variation; semiconductor optical amplifier; variable length data packets; Burst mode regenerator (BMR); dynamic range; hybrid integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer (HMZI); optical burst switching; optical packet switching; optical signal processing; optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2005736

Filename

4663536