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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
