Performance improvement of 40 Gbit/s optical soliton transmission system by employing all-optically regenerative repeater using nonlinear optical loop mirror

Author

Kaewplung, Pasu ; Thipchatchawanwong, Puttarak

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, Thailand

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

215

Abstract

The performance improvement of a 40 Gbit/s soliton transmission system employing a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) as an all-optical regenerative repeater is investigated. The switching characteristic of the NOLM is optimized using our design strategies. By inserting the optical repeater where the eye-penalty of the transmitted signal becomes 1 dB, we achieve an improvement of 0.3 dB eye-penalty resulting in a further 480 km transmission distance.

Keywords

digital communication; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical repeaters; optical solitons; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical regenerative repeater; design strategies; dispersion compensation; nonlinear interferometric switch; nonlinear optical loop mirror; optical fiber communication; optical soliton transmission system; performance improvement; switching characteristic; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. APCCAS '02. 2002 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7690-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2002.1115186

Filename

1115186