Title :
All-Optical Regeneration
Author :
Leuthold, J. ; Freude, W. ; Boettger, G. ; Wang, J. ; Marculescu, A. ; Vorreau, P. ; Bonk, R.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of High-Frequency & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Univ.
Abstract :
All-optical regenerators for both on-off keying but also for novel phase modulation formats are reviewed. The emphasis is on all-optical schemes exploiting semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) nonlinearities
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; optical modulation; optical repeaters; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical regeneration; on-off keying; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifier; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; nonlinear device; optical amplifier; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nottingham
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0235-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0236-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2006.248298
