• DocumentCode
    1675219
  • Title

    All-optical Re-phasing, Re-shaping, and Re-amplification of RZ-DPSK data

  • Author

    Awad, Ehab S. ; Cho, Pak S. ; Goldhar, Julius

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Maryland, College Park
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate novel technique for RZ-DPSK regeneration based on converting phase-noise into amplitude-noise and eliminating it using SOA. The system was tested using degraded 223-1 PRBS. BER shows removal of error-floor with 4 dB power-penalty improvement.
  • Keywords
    differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical communication; optical information processing; optical modulation; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers; RZ-DPSK regeneration; SOA; all-optical reamplification; all-optical rephasing; all-optical reshaping; amplitude noise; differential phase shift keying; phase noise; semiconductor optical amplifier; Band pass filters; Chirp; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Noise level; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Phase noise; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-831-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2007.4348347
  • Filename
    4348347