Demonstration of Field Trial Experiments to Investigate the Cascadability of a 10 Gb/s Optical 3R Regenerator with All-optical Clock Recovery

Author

Zhu, Zuqing ; Pan, Zhong ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Bo Xiang ; Paraschis, Loukas ; Harris, David L. ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

California Univ., Davis

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate field trial experiments to evaluate a 10-Gb/s optical 3R regenerator using fiber recirculation loops built with 264-km and 462-km SSMF fiber in field. Error-free transmission over 264,000-km with 1,000 optical 3R regeneration stages has been achieved. Experimental results indicate only 1.5-dB power penalty at BER 10^-9 after 264,000-km.

Keywords

error statistics; optical repeaters; synchronisation; BER; all-optical clock recovery; error-free transmission; fiber recirculation loops; optical 3R regenerator cascadability; power penalty; Clocks; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Repeaters; Stimulated emission; All-optical clock recovery; Fabry-Perot filter; Field trial; Optical regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifier based Mach-Zehnder interferometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Heraklion, Crete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9790-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2006.4350136

Filename

4350136