Study of the operating regime for all-optical passive 2R regeneration of dispersion-managed RZ data at 40 Gb/s using in-line NOLMs

Author

Boscolo, Sonia ; Turitsyn, Sergei K. ; Blow, Keith J.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

2002

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

32

Abstract

In this letter, we numerically demonstrate that the use of inline nonlinear optical loop mirrors in strongly dispersion-managed transmission systems dominated by pulse distortion and amplitude noise can achieve all-optical passive 2R regeneration of a 40-Gb/s return-to-zero data stream. We define the tolerance limits of this result to the parameters of the input pulses.

Keywords

mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical noise; optical pulse compression; tolerance analysis; 40 Gbit/s; 40-Gb/s RZ data stream; all-optical passive 2R regeneration; amplitude noise; eye diagrams; inline NOLMs; inline nonlinear optical loop mirrors; intrachannel four-wave mixing; pulse distortion; strongly dispersion-managed transmission systems; tolerance limits; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Mirrors; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Repeaters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.974151

Filename

974151