Error-free propagation of 10 Gb/s wavelength converted RZ data over 20000 km in a dispersion-managed system

Author

Cho, P.S. ; Carter, G.M. ; Mahgerefteh, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

243

Abstract

We performed all-optical wavelength conversion of return-to-zero data at 10 Gbit/s using a semiconductor-optical-amplifier/fiber-Bragg-grating hybrid device and propagated the converted data error-free over 20,000 km in a dispersion-managed system.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network management; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 20000 km; Gb/s wavelength converted RZ data; all-optical wavelength conversion; converted data error-free; dispersion-managed system; error-free propagation; fiber-Bragg-grating; return-to-zero data; semiconductor-optical-amplifier; semiconductor-optical-amplifier/fiber-Bragg-grating hybrid device; Band pass filters; Educational institutions; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.768122

Filename

768122