• DocumentCode
    1589327
  • Title

    Demonstration of cascadability and phase regeneration of SOA-based all-optical DPSK wavelength converters

  • Author

    Kise, Tomofumi ; Nguyen, Kimchau N. ; Garcia, John M. ; Poulsen, Henrik N. ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate cascadable regeneration of 10Gb/s DPSK signals by using a two-fold cascade of SOA-based wavelength converters. No additional power penalty and 3dB OSNR improvement are observed between 1 and 2 hops.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; optical repeaters; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA-based all-optical DPSK wavelength converters; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascadability demonstration; phase regeneration; Amplitude shift keying; Differential phase shift keying; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0213-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5875522
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1589327